Quotes about Control
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
- Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
- Margaret Atwood
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Life offers us this great gift of self-organization, how we can be held in the basin of shared meaning and, within that, exercise individual freedom. It is such a shame to waste it on fear and doubt. Or to seek to contain and control it.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- Mark Twain
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
- Dorothy Sayers
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
- Euripides
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
- John Piper