Quotes on Controlling Power

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

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

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

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

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

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 somebody, 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 had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

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

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