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Quotes about Control

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power.
- CS Lewis
Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.
- Kenneth Copeland
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.
- Marcus Aurelius
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
- Ayn Rand
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
- David Brainerd
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
- Og Mandino
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
- James Madison
Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment
- Myles Munroe
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
- Pablo Picasso
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
- St. Thomas Aquinas