Quotes About Control

Secret to success is learning how to use pain and pleasure, instead of having pain and pleasure use you.

Life is like a river. It's moving, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don't take deliberate, conscious action to steer yourself in a direction you have predetermined.

So often we're seduced into believing that events control our lives and that our environment has shaped who we are today.

how you are going to master money.

Whether we let money control us, or whether we take control of it.

How you deal with money reflects how you deal with power. Is it an affliction or a blessing? A game or a burden?

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. —MARIO ANDRETTI

what matters is that you master money and it doesn't master you.

El secreto del éxito consiste en aprender a usar el sufrmiento y el placer, en lugar de permitir que éstos le utilicen a uno. Si lo hace así, ejercerá el control sobre su propia vida. Si no, la vida le controlará a usted. TONY ROBBINS

every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Si suprime sus emociones y trata de eliminarlas de su vida, o si las magnifica y permite que lo controlen todo, estará despilfarrando uno de los recursos más preciosos de la vida.

The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come.

A man may have the best of causes, the best of talents, and the best of tempers; he may write as well as Addison, or as strongly as Junius; but even with all this he cannot successfully answer, when attacked by The Jupiter. In such matters it is omnipotent. What the Czar is in Russia, or the mob in America, that The Jupiter is in England. Answer such an article! No, warden; whatever you do, don't do that.

There had been with him such periods of misery, during which he had wailed inwardly and had confessed to himself that the wife of his bosom was too much for him. Now the storm seemed to be coming very roughly. It would be demanded of him that he should exercise certain episcopal authority which he knew did not belong to him. Now, episcopal authority admits of being stretched or contracted according to the character of the bishop who uses it.

but things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.

Government! Well; I suppose there must be government. But the less of it the better. I'm not against government; — nor yet against laws, Mr. Finn; though the less of them, too, the better

But there was no coaxing Roger over now, or indeed ever: he was a wilful, headstrong, masterful man; a tyrant always though never a cruel one; and accustomed to rule his wife and household as despotically as he did his gangs of workmen. Such men it is not easy to coax over.

You talk of the heart as though we could control it." "The heart will follow the thoughts, and they may be controlled. I am not passionate, perhaps, as you are, and I think I can control my heart. But my fortune has been kind to me, and I have never been tempted

She had wished to be imprudent when she was young; but her friends had been too strong for her. She had been reduced, and kept in order, and made to run in a groove, — and was now, when she sat looking at her little boy with his bold face, almost inclined to think that the world was right, and that grooves were best. But if she had been controlled when she was young, so ought the Duke to be controlled now that he was old.

And that's about the finest ambition by which a man can be moved," said the Duke. "The man who can manage the purse-strings of this country can manage anything.

Not so Mrs. Proudie. This lady is habitually authoritative to all, but to her poor husband she is despotic. Successful as has been his career in the eyes of the world, it would seem that in the eyes of his wife he is never right. All hope of defending himself has long passed from him; indeed he rarely even attempts self-justification, and is aware that submission produces the nearest approach to peace which his own house can ever attain.

is coming to that, that there will be no life left anywhere in the country. No one is any longer fit to rule himself, or those belonging to him. The Government is to find us all in everything, and the press is to find the Government.

A world ruled by a handful of madmen who weren't even that bright. How had it come to this?