Quotes about Control

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.

Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.