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"Control" Quotes

"When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us."

"It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly."

― Kobe Bryant

"I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you."

― Kobe Bryant

"You either play the game or let the game play you."

― Dwayne Johnson

"Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will."

"Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."

― Sigmund Freud

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

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

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

― Leonardo da Vinci

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

― Marilyn Monroe

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies"

― Napoleon Bonaparte