Controlling Power Quotes:

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Positive Thinking, Power Of The Mind, Inspirational Bullying

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”

topic: Positive, Leadership, Knowledge, Power And Control, Self Restraint

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Love Life, Hypnosis, Self Control, Controlling Power

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

- Malcolm X

source: "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

topic: Powerful, Media, Mind, Mass Media, Media Bias

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

- Laozi

topic: Positive, Powerful, May, Personal Power, Power And Control

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

- Horace

topic: Inspirational, Mind, Power And Control, Inspirational Weight, Inspirational Weight Loss

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

- Pietro Aretino

source: Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

topic: Motivational, Kings, Responsibility, Power And Control, Self Discipline

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Motivational, Truth, Freedom, Power And Control, Self Discipline

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, 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 better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.

topic: Fear, Men, Views, Power And Control, State Government

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Men, Evil, Inspirational Buddhist, Power And Control

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Inspirational Life, Self, Discipline, Power And Control, Spiritual Disciplines

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Passion, Character, Men, Fetters, Controlling Power

Self-respect is the root of discipline

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Self, Roots, Discipline, Power And Control, Controlling Power

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

- Edmund Burke

source: Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

topic: Men, Liberty, Moral, Moral Virtues, Civil Liberties

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

- Robert Burns

topic: Wisdom, Roots, Self, Power And Control, Self Restraint

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Power And Control, Mind Control

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Heart, Joy, Brain, Reins, Controlling Power

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

topic: Society, Liberty, Appetite, Civil Liberties, Controlling Power

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

- Rob Bell

source: Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.70, Harper Collins

topic: Controlling Power

A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

- John Adams

source: John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

topic: Passion, Errors, Prejudice, Controlling Power, Partiality

Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin.

- Francis Marion

topic: Jesus, Heart, Broken, Controlling Power

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

- Bill Maher

topic: Religion, Atheism, Belief, Controlling Power

Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position

- Bill Maher

topic: Sex, Atheism, Belief, Superhuman, Controlling Power

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

topic: Desire, Trying, Atoms, Controlling Power, Outgoing