Control Quotes

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

~ Gina Greenlee

Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks...Compete! If you aren't willing to work for you goals, don't expect others to! Believe in yourself.

~ Anonymous

I roll over on my back and clutch the book against my chest; then I chuck it on the carpet. It's too heavy to rest on me, too full of history. Not all of it is bad. Some of the memories make me smile. Some of them make me mad. But more dangerously, some of them make me wonder what my life would be like as a girlfriend, what it would be like to have a regular relationship, with all its ups and downs and awkward moments.I switch out my lamp and stare at the ceiling in the dark, taking a series of shaky breaths. I know that it’s better this way, being the one in control. The one in control calls the shots, and the one in control sets the pace.Most important of all, the one in control doesn’t get hurt.

~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

In this world we like to follow the plot, to think we know what is happening, what is coming next. But these great quantum movies are like spiritual experiences. They start to dismantle the world as we know it, and we find ourselves knowing less and less about what is happening. We do not have to know; there is a Presence behind all this that knows what It is doing. Instead of feeling nervous when things start to dismantle and fall apart, we can accept that we personally do not know, and see it as a good thing.

~ David Hoffmeister

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

~ Mary E. Demuth

Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out. We want so desperately for them to agree with us, to see things our way. We evaluate people, judge people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that. When we become quiet enough to let go of people, we learn compassion for them.

~ Richard J. Foster

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

~ Storm Constantine

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

~ Susan Hill

Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.

~ Sam Owen

You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take.

~ Toni Sorenson

When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

~ Suzy Kassem

I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my bodyand life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life—whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can’t rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I’m feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. Andmost of all, I can choose my thoughts.you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you’re gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.Drop everything else but that. Because if you can’t learn to master your thinking, you’re indeep trouble forever

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

~ Debasish Mridha

Syllogism ―Major premise: I can control my thoughts.Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts.Conclusion: I can control my feelings.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

~ Mary E. Demuth

While you can’t control everything, you can control more than you think, and you can live your life with a plan that will dramatically improve your chances of ending up at a destination you choose.

~ Michael Hyatt

We have more control than most of us realize. Each day is filled with thousands of opportunities to change the story of our lives.

~ Michael Hyatt

The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds, harness them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

~ Paula Hawkins

Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else’s.

~ Kate Mcgahan

I lived willy-nilly. Without any sense of being part of the order of things. I lived by fragments, pieces, scraps, in the moment, at random, from incident to incident, as if buffeted by ebb and flow. Oftentimes I had the impression that someone had torn the majority of pages out of the book of my life, because they were empty, or because they belonged not to me but to someone else’s life.

~ Wiesław Myśliwski

Control your anger, be calm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

~ Johnny Rich

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your

~ Louise O'neill

We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people – the ancients no less than us – have civilized themselves through the wilful repression of the old, animal self.

~ Donna Tartt

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

~ T.f. Hodge

How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don’t ‘control’ something, doesn’t mean it’s going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don’t understand why it’s happening or where it’s coming from. It’s unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in November when she started dating Craig, and Sam is completely different. Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it? My sister tried to clarify things. She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a superior position that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

~ Stephen Chbosky

They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.

~ Louis De Broglie

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

~ Josh Stern

The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.

~ Jim George

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

~ Diane Arbus