Control Quotes - Page 2

Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

Harriet Martineau

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

L.M. Montgomery

Superior people never make long visits.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Ouida

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

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.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Anonymous

Without discipline there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

George Bernard Shaw

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Margery Allingham

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.

Helen Gurley Brown

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

Adelaide Proctor

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott

Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

Plautus

Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.

Margaret Oliphant

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.

Teresa of Avila.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

Caroline Begelow LeRow

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

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

Bible

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.

Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.

He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

Self-command is the main elegance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

Robert Browning

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Gertrude Atherton

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

You must have discipline to have fun.

It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces.

We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.

There are always ways to control your environment.

The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.

No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

Michael D. O'Brien

You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

Daniel M. Gilbert

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?

Herman Melville

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.

...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..

It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everything; where emptiness filled luxurious landscapes till there was nothing but hollow splendor…She hated the pretense.More than hatred, she was frightened of it.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Thornton Wilder

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.

Kevin Brockmeier

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party.

Bertrand Russell

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