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Quotes about Control

Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard. As it should be.
- Shonda Rhimes
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
- George Washington
The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.
- Michael Wolff
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
- William Booth
I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.
- Joyce Meyer
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
- Marcus Aurelius
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
- RC Sproul
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
- John F. Kennedy
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
- Marcus Aurelius
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
For man plans, but God arranges.
- Thomas a Kempis