Quotes about Control

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

Accepting him, I find, is the best way to tame him.

We are the masters of our fate.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.