Quotes Tagged "control"

It takes a certain amount of intelligence, and bravery, to live your life without someone constantly telling you how to live it.

Las mujeres de las primeras umma (comunidad) de Medina tomaban parte plenamente en la vida pública, y algunas de ellas, de acuerdo a la costumbre árabe, luchaban al lado de los hombres en el campo de batalla. No parece que entonces experimentaran el islam como una religión opresiva, aunque más tarde, como sucedió con el cristianismo, los hombres tomaron el control de la religión y la adaptaron al patriarcado dominante.

It is for the very reason that we cannot control other people and that they may be very different to us that something alive and interesting may happen in life.

Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, & after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, & stifling their resentment.

Let every man be master of his time.

Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

Time is an abundance that continues on, we fabricate a false construct to control it.

Music is about time,’ I told her. ‘It is about controlling time.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.

They need foes so that they can justify the spending. The misuse of power. The curtail of liberty. Control. These so called, terror groups, always seem to come along at the right time. Misdirections are what make people think that they are seeing the truth. You can arm people with sticks, but not with knowledge or wisdom.

Believe in yourself and move forth with conviction to have better control over your senses and yourself.

Sleep with the knowledge that you control your dreams, and only you can make them come true.

We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.

The ninety degree shift does not cancel the effects of old age upon the physical body, but it does enable warriors to retain control of all their faculties, their knowledge, sobriety, and power, right up to and even beyond the moment of physical death. This is every warrior's reward for having been willing to fight impeccably right up until the final breath.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals