2,640 Quotes About Control

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

But there are things not even Crown and Council can steal and control. Not my mind, not my heart, not my soul.

I’ve been much more in control of my life. In control of what I say and how I say it. Making choices for me rather than just reacting to the choices other people were making.

The most important area of domination [is] the mental universe of the colonised, the control, through culture, of how people perceive themselves and their relationship to the world.

You attempt to better understand that which you can’t explain. As to whether you can control it, that’s still an unknown. But the closer you come to knowing a thing, the less likely you are to let it control you.”


When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery.

That’s because the true power of magic is not to send random objects careening off across the room. The true power of magic is to make ordinary people bow.

You should be concerned when a corrupt government has control of nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation facilities and a nuclear powered navy.

What we should focus on are not events or people or things, but our thoughts that control how we see the world through our lens..