Control Quotes

A life without a plan is a life out of control.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.

~ Jessica Khoury

I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do anything to invite it or deserve it. But that just makes it worse. Maybe I don't blame myself for what happened, but when they tell you that something was completely and utterly random, they're also telling you something else. That nothing you do matters. It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway. Evil's resourceful that way. ... They tell you it was random to make you feel blameless. But all I hear them telling me is that I have no control, and if I have no control, then I'm powerless. I would have preferred being blamed.

~ Katja Millay

I feel like I have lost all control. I am going to roll with it.

~ Amanda Mosher

Firing of Energy does it faster than pumping, but the latter is under better control, and much more resource efficient

~ Priyavrat Thareja

When I lose control, I lose my cool and I pass the point of no RTN.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

~ Elizabeth George

In the great tornado of life, things sometimes seem out of control, and we can’t see where we are going. But sometimes, when the storm passes and the dust settles, things have landed into place beautifully.

~ Charisse Montgomery

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

~ Seth Adam Smith

And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random.

~ Douglas Coupland

This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There is no such thing as control of a situation. If we try to do this, it turns back on us in negativity.

~ Ambika Devi

Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.

~ Bethany Morrell

Love isn’t about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.

~ Jamie Mcguire

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

But when you’re in love, you’re not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me —what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling like that?

~ Kami Garcia

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

~ Roger Harrison

Control.... is not what we need.What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

~ Patricia Pearson

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

~ Christopher Morris

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These numbers represent one of the twentieth century’s most important public health achievements.

~ Anthony Biglan

Polluting his brain with a hunger so base that it would have made him vomit had he had any possession of his own body. The hunger was more than a desire for food, for sex or for power. The hunger was a vacuum, an endless vortex that consumed every thought, every impulse of who and what he was. He tried to scream but it wouldn't let him.

~ William C. Dietz

If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

~ Chrostoph Morris

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.

~ Toni Sorenson

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

~ Traci Lawrence

Control what you can control.

~ Andre Agassi

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

~ Jan Karon

Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt.

~ Unarine Ramaru

You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Given all that lies beyond mycontrol, I obsess about the few things I can control

~ Andre Agassi

Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident, and faithful, God is in control.

~ Toni Sorenson

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

~ David W. Earle

You know where I’m going to be, and you’ll know where I’ve been every step of my way to get there. You’ve made a hobby out of taking things away from me… a lot of them I never even knew to miss, but I know now. I know what you just took, and there’s no way you’re taking anything else from me. It’s time for me to start taking from you,” Wednesday said with a confidence in her voice that even she noticed and was proud to hear.“I thought you said you weren’t running from me anymore,” Klein said with a laugh in his voice.Her face was red, and she felt like she was on fire. She managed, summoning all her will, to keep herself from screaming and instead, keep an even and icy voice. “I’m not, you piece of shit. Now, I’m running at you.

~ Dennis Sharpe

Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

~ David D. Allee

Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.

~ Wilma Stockenström

There lies a faith in the absence of control.

~ Kylie Maughan