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Control Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Take for yourself what you can, and don’t be ruled by others; to belong to oneself – the whole savour of life lies in that.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.”

Ivan Turgenev

3. “It is sweet to be the sole source, the arbitrary and irresponsible source of the greatest joys and profoundest miseries to someone else.”

Ivan Turgenev

4. “Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.”

Ivan Turgenev

5. “Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.”

Camille Paglia

6. “We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. “I’m this way because my father made me this way. I’m this way because my husband made me this way.” Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”

Camille Paglia

7. “Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.”

Camille Paglia

8. “Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.”

Camille Paglia

9. “The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”

John D. Rockefeller

10. “Own nothing, control everything.”

John D. Rockefeller

11. “Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”

Andrew Carnegie

12. “There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.”

Andrew Carnegie

13. “The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

Andrew Carnegie

14. “I got some tartar control toothpaste. I still have tartar, but that stuff’s under control. I got so much tartar, I don’t have to dip my fish sticks in anything. That’s actually kind of gross. After that joke, I have to clarify that I’m just joking.”

Mitch Hedberg

15. “I got some tartar-control toothpaste a while back. I’ve still got tartar, but it’s under control.”

Mitch Hedberg

16. “Our emotions are usually the worst friends to make decisions with.”

Ankur Warikoo

17. “Loss is a result. Fear is an input. You don't control your results. You always control your inputs.”

Ankur Warikoo

18. “Those who don’t own their time get owned by the excuse “I don’t have time””

Ankur Warikoo

19. “We cannot control our thoughts. We can only be aware of them.”

Ankur Warikoo

20. “If you feel compelled to keep the world perpetually in awe of you or your life, then they own your life!”

Ankur Warikoo

21. “Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.”

Sam Walton

22. “Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.”

Sam Walton

23. “The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.”

Jimmy Carter

24. “If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.”

Alvin Toffler

25. “The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow’s worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.”

Alvin Toffler

26. “One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.”

Ramakrishna

27. “Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

28. “If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

29. “Lust weakens both body and mind.”

Pythagoras

30. “No man is free who cannot command himself.”

Pythagoras

31. “Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.”

Pythagoras

32. “Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.”

Pythagoras

33. “In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”

Pythagoras

34. “Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.”

Democritus

35. “It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”

Democritus

36. “Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.”

Democritus

37. “There are some men who are masters of cities but slaves to women.”

Democritus

38. “No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”

Plutarch

39. “Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.”

Plutarch

40. “Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.”

Plutarch

41. “To seek power by servility to the people is a disgrace, but to maintain it by terror, violence, and oppression is not a disgrace only, but an injustice.”

Plutarch

42. “For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.”

Plutarch

43. “The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”

Plutarch

44. “Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”

Plutarch

45. “Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.”

Plutarch

46. “When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.”

Plutarch

47. “It was for the most part by sacrifices, processions, and religious dances, which he himself appointed and conducted, and which mingled with their solemnity a diversion full of charm and a beneficent pleasure, that he won the people’s favour and tamed their fierce and warlike tempers. At times, also, by heralding to them vague terrors from the god, strange apparitions of divine beings and threatening voices, he would subdue and humble their minds by means of superstitious fears.”

Plutarch

48. “What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man’s plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.”

Plutarch