Control Quotes

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

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector. One does, indeed [make] one's own destiny. Therefore, control yourself as a merchant does a fine horse.

In life, we can't always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present, God has given me no control over the moment following.

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.