2,640 Quotes About Control

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.Yeah, that's what you do. Take control.So, yeah.Oh, yeah.

The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?

Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

Everything I've learned from the time I was born is essentially some form of control. Basic lessons: how to control my hands, my body. Advanced lessons: how to control my volume, my appearance. Having control over myself allows me to choose. I can present myself as loudly or as softly, as boldly or as meekly, as wildly or as calmly as you wish.

We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One might think we are avoiding intimacy, that maybe we really like our finely managed lives just the way they are.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

he who feeds you, controls you