Quotes about Control

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.

I believe that clutching tightly to a person or thing, or forcing my will on any given situation eliminates the possibility of my Higher Power doing anything constructive about the situation, the person, or me. My controlling blocks God's power. It blocks other people's ability to grow. It stops events from happening naturally. It prevents me from enjoying people or events.

a planner-the sort of person who could size up a situation and take control and be rewarded with a good outcome.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

There was a time when I was a hothead, and my temper wreaked havoc in my life until I learned to take myself out of the center of the circle. The real key to staying cool and calm is to relinquish selfishness and always consider the feelings of others.

We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten their sources of revenue.

It's all in God's hands. That's where it's always been.

Proverbs 16:32, which says that mightier is the man who can control his temper than the man who can conquer a city.

Anytime you give to government the responsibility and authority to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security, "free" health care, and "free" education and indoctrination of children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are sacrificed.

They decreed that the American government always be controlled by the will of the people, not the people by the will of the government.

Ben Carson: It's all in God's hands. Craig: But we believe you let God use your hands.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.