Quotes about Control
Don't you see, hon, this is all beyond us. When things are out of your control, it's time to just sit back and watch the Lord at work.
— Terry James
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Unless a man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
— Theodore Roosevelt
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Man proposes, but God disposes.
— Thomas a Kempis
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
— Thomas a Kempis
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
— Thomas a Kempis
Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?
— Thomas a Kempis
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit
— Thomas a Kempis
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
— St. Thomas Aquinas