Quotes about Control
Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
So true it is that man proposes and God disposes.
- Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln
Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender.
- Adrian Rogers
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop
Persuasion is better than force.
- Aesop
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
- Alain de Botton
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
- Derek Prince
Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.
- Derek Prince
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
- Desmond Tutu
Want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.
- DiAnn Mills