Quotes about Control

Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right: farthest from him is best

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.

I plead with you to control your tempers, to put a smile upon your faces, which will erase anger; speak out with words of love and peace, appreciation, and respect. If you will do this, your lives will be without regret. Your marriages and family relationships will be preserved. You will be much happier. You will do greater good. You will feel a sense of peace that will be wonderful.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Old man — don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, Peace, be still!

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.