Control success before it controls you. — Dwight Yoakam
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others — Bertrand Russell
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. — Robert Foster Bennett
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. — Rudolph Valentino
You can control any situation if you first control yourself. — Florence Scovel Shinn
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Control your life through insanity. — Cliff Burton
Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? — Raymond Holliwell
The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course. — Leon Brown
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different. — A.S. King
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. — John Von Neumann
If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects of your life. — Joe Rogan
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on. — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Short Controlling Things Quotes
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
course you never do. — Gregory Bateson
In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control. — Joko Widodo
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell
Is there anything ever under our total control? Yes, two things are: your actions and your attitude. — Mo Gawdat
We can only focus on what we can control. — Mikel Arteta
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl
Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a better way, but you don't have a universe to rule. — J. Vernon McGee
From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period. — Charles Stanley
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things. — Corrie Ten Boom
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them! — Zig Ziglar
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. — Emily Dickinson
As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating. — Kaoru Ishikawa
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control. — Martha C. Nussbaum
The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God. — DeVon Franklin
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging. — Marsha M. Linehan
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
Controlling Your Thoughts Quotes
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. — Napoleon Hill
You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences. — Joseph Murphy
You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else. — Napoleon Hill
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts. — Napoleon Hill
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. — Dale Carnegie
When it comes to thought, you should be in full control. Your brain’s job is to produce logic for you to consider. — Mo Gawdat
Stop overthinking. You can't control everything. Just let it be.
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. — Dan Millman
Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated. — Sister Souljah
Control your thoughts, and you control your emotions. Control your emotions, and you control your actions. Control your actions, and you control the outcome. — Tim Grover
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes 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. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Things You Can Control Quotes
Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change. — Nick Saban
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. — Marcus Aurelius
If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in. — Paul Tudor Jones
Good and bad things will happen in life. You just have to keep living and stress over what you can't control.
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. — Portia de Rossi
Don't take yourself too seriously. Life is too short to stress over things you can't control. — MrBeast
You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong. — Jonathan Toews
You can securely control neither your land nor your digitally centralized financial assets without the help of government. Thus the locality & importance of legal ownership in these things. You can securely control your globally seamless Bitcoin without the help of government. — Nick Szabo
The whole thing taught me not to worry about the things you can’t control. You can control how you react and can try to make things happen as you want them to. I focus on doing my best to ensure the outcomes. And when it doesn’t go my way I have to work harder the next time. — Jared Kushner
The key is to focus on things that are under your control and make a difference. Don’t get distracted by the things you can’t change. — Jim Simons
It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom. — Lacey Chabert
Things You Can't Control Quotes
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come. — Bobby Hutcherson
I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control. — Sayings
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. — Marcia Wallace
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character. — Wayne Dyer
People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic. — John Addison
You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat. — Scott Hall
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. — Ryan Gosling
Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control. — Tim Tebow
Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good. — Ben Hogan
You can't worry about things you have no control over. — Steve Nash
Controlling Everything Quotes
I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. — John Wesley
Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life. — T. D. Jakes
God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it. — Kay Arthur
The secret of life is... everything is out of control. — Ajahn Brahm
Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. — Cus D'Amato
And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. — Edith Stein
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti
Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it. — Jeff Hardy
God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life. — Joel Osteen
As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life. — Drunvalo Melchizedek
There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible. — Epictetus
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. — Sri Aurobindo
Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace. — Frederick Douglass
If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them. — Jacque Fresco
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. — Epictetus
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. — Frank Zappa
Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well. — Cathy Freeman
And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control. — Paul Tudor Jones
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. — River Phoenix
One day I realized that control is not to be gained at the micro level of every detail. It is not to be found in what I need to do, but rather in how I need to do every little thing I do. — Mo Gawdat
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. — Wayne LaPierre
People 'play dead,' too, because we share the same mechanisms in the primitive part of our brain stem. We call it fainting. Our tendency to faint is controlled by the vagal system, specifically how sensitive we are to perceived danger. Some people are so anxious and oversensitive that their vagus nerves will cause them to faint at the smallest things, like seeing a spider, hearing bad news, or looking at blood. — James Nestor
You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses. — Jack Canfield
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control. — Naval Ravikant
Material things are external and have no bearing on the soul. You can only drive one car and occupy one room at a time. But if you seek happiness within your own being, in control over your own life-force, mind, and purpose, nothing else matters. You can be happy unconditionally. That’s the kind of happiness I want to give to the people I love because it comes from within. It’s already there. — Wim Hof
Three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear. — Tony Robbins
I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make. — Taraji P. Henson
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. — Deepak Chopra
Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right. — Luci Swindoll
There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay. — Derren Brown
Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things and harder to be distracted by the wrong things. — Tim Grover
Today let me reassure you, God knows right where you are and He knows how to get you to where you need to be. Even when things don’t go the way you planned, His hand is on you. — Victoria Osteen
Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change. — Amy Winehouse
There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. — Charlton Heston
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