Quotes about Control
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
— Calvin Coolidge
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
— George Bernard Shaw
I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.
— Charles Spurgeon
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
— Ayn Rand
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
— CS Lewis
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
— CS Lewis
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
— Ezra Taft Benson
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
— George Bernard Shaw
But living in fear is no kind of life. We have to trust God. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But we know He's in charge.
— Terri Blackstock