Control Quotes

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

~ Jeffrey Fry

You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive… to build something beautiful.

~ Steve Maraboli

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

~ H.l. Mencken

The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.

~ Oli Anderson

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.

~ Richie Norton

Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

~ Majid Kazmi

Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.

~ Dashanne Stokes

From that day on I clearly understood that the kingdom of God can never mix with politics. The ultimate, stated aim of Marxist teaching is the complete eradication of all religion. The pure bride of Christ can never be controlled by an atheistic government or led by men who hate God!

~ Brother Yun

Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have more time and money than ever before, most of us have little sense of control over our own lives. It is all connected to the apathy that means fewer and fewer people vote. Politicians don’t listen to us anyway. Big business has all the power; religious extremism all the fear. But in the garden or allotment we are king or queen. It is our piece of outdoors that lays a real stake to the planet.

~ Monty Don

Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.

~ Suzy Kassem

An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

~ Wilkie Collins

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!

~ Milan Kundera

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.

~ Rebecca Coleman

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

~ Ben Marcus

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

~ A.s. King

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

~ Orson Scott Card

Do you realize that you have the power to design a life that’s meaningful and even remarkable? You and God are in a family partnership. He has not only blessed you with mortal breath, but with a purpose-filled life. He’s given you power and will to control that life. This is a gift that He will never take from you. But when you humble yourself and give your will back to him, your life will be nothing short of miraculous.

~ Toni Sorenson

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

~ William S. Burroughs

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

~ Naomi Wolf

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

~ John Fowles

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.

~ Criss Jami

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

~ Criss Jami

She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.

~ Beth Revis

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

~ Jack Weatherford

I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Control what you can. Influence what you should. Forget the rest.

~ Todd Stocker

Stop worrying about what you cannot control. It’s a total waste of your energy, energy that could otherwise be used to help you focus on what you can influence. I spend large parts of my coaching sessions helping people to sift through their challenges and concerns – helping them to determine what they can change and what they have no control over.

~ Nigel Cumberland

Too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control.

~ Jim Ferrell

Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption

~ Constance Friday

A boss says “go and make sure you do it”, a leader says “let’s go and make it happen”. Bosses control people, leaders involve them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the greatest secrets of great leaders, 'they are not controlled by what they cannot do'. They directed by what they can.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

~ Katherine Rundell

Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! ‘Live’ as a ‘friend’ with the ‘wife’. You are her ‘friend’ and she is your ‘friend’.

~ Dada Bhagwan