The last thing that I’ve been unable to control in my quest to control everything around me is death.
Control Quotes
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I have discovered through trial and error, primarily the latter, that none of us stands at the helm of life’s great ocean liner; control is an illusion; destination itself is a pitiful chimera; we are at best mere passengers aboard a drifiting vessel, some of us in steerage, some in first class, all at the […]
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you […]
Americans are culturally antagonistic to being controlled, but without a foundation in philosophical thought, they are often advocates of some area of regulation, control, taxation, or statism, i.e., some attempt to control others by force. It is the reluctance to submit to the decrees of others that is probably a leading cause of much of […]
If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.
