Quotes about Control

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Pray, and let God worry.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... 'We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.' So they begin to ask: 'What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.