Control Quotes

One must run his life and set himself apart to do that which he was born to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you can actually monitor your passing life and be in control and be in charge of your time and making sure that you are actually converting every passing day into something, then you will never regret it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

So the way to control your life is this; every minute you live, maybe you are in church; ask yourself “why am I here? What product am I producing by being here?” I know most Christians just go to church like dummies.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Greatness is not greater than you. You have total control over greatness. You can decide to be great and it will happen.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The key to your greatness is under your control. You are the one in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Greatness is not greater than you, you have total control over greatness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The key to your greatness is under your control.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man’s evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

~ Sigmund Freud

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Did I? For, if I did, I was wrong. I fyou won't take a chance, then the powers you refuse because you cannot explain them, will, as they say, make a monkey out of you.

~ Mark Helprin

Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

~ Asa Don Brown

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

~ Veronica Roth

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

~ Craig Ferguson

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

~ Ray Bradbury

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

~ Luigina Sgarro

But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

~ Gayle Forman

I cannot be afraid of being afraid. Rather, I need to realize that it is my fear that gives me the energy to wrestle that which I fear into the dirt that is soon to become the road underneath my feet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Freedom from fear's consuming control over us hinges upon our honestly dealing with what our overwhelming fears are specifically about and then coming to terms with those tedious, often emotionally driven details.

~ Connie Kerbs

Law without reason is criminal.

~ Criss Jami

When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life

~ Sunday Adelaja

Control leads to compliance, autonomy leads to engagement.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

~ A.s. King

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

~ James Madison

Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.

~ Suzy Kassem

Thoughts control your feelings, and people around you control your thoughts.

~ Akansh Malik

You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.

~ Jeffrey Fry

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.

~ Suzy Kassem

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

~ Mike Norton

The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.

~ George Packer

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

~ Alfred De Musset

Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

~ Timothy Ferriss

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.

~ Tiffany Madison

The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.

~ T.f. Hodge

But in actuality, the assumption that there is no freedom leads to the exact opposite of order in human behavior. If we all really felt we were not free to make our own choices of how to face and deal with the conditions set for us by heredity and environment, we would also feel no responsibility for our behavior. And we would be right. We couldn’t be blamed for action over which we had no control, so we would make no real effort to act responsibly. We would give free rein to our passions on the grounds that whatever we did was part of the cause-and-effect sequence of events preordained by the conditions. Instead of orderly human conduct, there would be chaos. In fact, much of the irresponsible antisocial behavior that characterizes our modern society stems from the fact that many people have studied or otherwise absorbed this scientific doctrine of determinism. As a result, they have unconsciously excused their own behavior as well as that of others on the grounds that it is determined by factors beyond control.

~ James C. Crumbaugh

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

~ Don Winslow

The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.

~ Jeffrey Fry