Control Quotes

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

I always enjoyed the feeling of being onstage - the magic that comes. When I hit the stage it's like all of a sudden a magic from somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just lose control of yourself.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.