Quotes about Control

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

The buck stops here.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.

How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?

Dean: God exists without qualms. As we roll along this way, I am positive beyond doubt that everything will be taken care of for us - that even you, as you drive, fearful of the wheel - the thing will go along of itself and you won't go off the road and I can sleep.