Control Quotes

Recognize the signs, these perpetual question and need to control. Never be a part of someone else's obsession. Let them carry it alone, with their snakeskin smile. These are the people that hold their hand out and it’s as cold as their heart.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others a bore is one who talks to you about himself and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Lisa Kirk

Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Barbara Walters

The less said the better.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you!

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

Epictetus

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

Sharon Anthony Bower

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Napoléon Bonaparte

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Geraldine Ferraro

The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.

Marie de France

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

Florence Hurst Harriman

Love understands love it needs no talk.

Frances Ridley Havergal

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Julia Ward Howe

Handle them carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.

Pearl Strachan Hurd

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Charlotte Lennox

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Phyllis McGinley

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Taylor Caldwell

Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Mary Parker Follett

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.

Philip Massinger

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.

Betty Boothroyd

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

Christine Downing

The highest result of education is tolerance.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.

Mary F. Robinson

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Vita Sackville-West

When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

Anne Wilson Schaef

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Millicent Fenwick

Never eat more than you can lift.

A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

Betty MacDonald

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