2,640 Quotes About Control

...verbal abuse is an issue of control, a means of holding power over another. This abuse may be overt or covert, constant, controlling, and what Bach and Deutsch (1980) call “crazymaking.

If someone is trying to make you afraid, they are trying to control you.

The more you want to be right the less you are in control. If you want to be right you are not willing.

Conflict through the ages has not been between opposites, but versions of the same state of mind: the desire to control others.

We are all hopelessly addicted to the delusion that we are in control of anything.

Calmness is control.

Quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente, controla el pasado (Cap 3, primera parte - 1984)

On principle, Leo Kincaid didn’t gamble. When he made a move, it was meticulously researched, airtight for leaks, and remained under his control, always.

The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me. I quit spending my life trying to control myself and began to trust myself. We only control what we don't trust.