Control success before it controls you. — Dwight Yoakam
Having complete control but not a clue what you’re doing is a recipe for disaster. — Paul Jarvis
Control your life through insanity. — Cliff Burton
If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti
The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course. — Leon Brown
If you're in control, you're not going fast enough. — Parnelli Jones
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. — Lao Tzu
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t. — Byron Katie
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. — Rudolph Valentino
The secret of life is... everything is out of control. — Ajahn Brahm
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen
Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go. — Vincent Cassel
If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you. — Brian Andreas
Short Losing Control Quotes
Control me...release me...forget about me. — Jeff Hardy
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
course you never do. — Gregory Bateson
We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way. — Byron Katie
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti
Influence without control is a weapon of mass destruction. — Isaac Mashman
To control the mind is like trying to control a drunken monkey that has been bitten by a scorpion. — Indian Proverbs
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control. — Andy Mineo
The one that embraces a lot cannot keep it together — Spanish Proverbs
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you. — Dave Ramsey
Losing Control Image Quotes
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Fear Of Losing Control Quotes
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place. — Terence McKenna
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else. — Joss Whedon
There's a lot of fear-mongering about "losing control" of your brand online, when, in fact, you've got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act. — Jay Baer
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life. — John C. Danforth
You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself. — Ladyhawke
There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where. — Richard Jackson
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life. — Kevin Whately
Losing Self Control Quotes
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier. — Rafael Nadal
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.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. — Tom Wilson
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. — Marcus Aurelius
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. — Henry Miller
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control. — Tim Ferriss
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself. — Oprah Winfrey
If you lose self-control everything will fall. — John Wooden
Can't Control Quotes
That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel. — David Duke
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
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
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
Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Its not that we dont need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions. — Amartya Sen
My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look. — Ronnie Coleman
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
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
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it — Macklemore
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words. — Henry Mintzberg
Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share. — Melody Beattie
Lack Of Control Quotes
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives. — Albert Bandura
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
There is no climate crisis. There is a crisis of lack of affordable essential hydrocarbon fuels caused by the morons who believe in a climate crisis. Kindly stop being one of those morons as billions of lives depend on these fuels & you can't control the climate. — Saifedean Ammous
Emotional control isn’t a lack of emotion; it’s a necessary function of maturity. — Andrew Tate
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. — Benito Mussolini
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control — LeCrae
I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive. — Patty Duke
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal
Control Issues Quotes
Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. — Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. — William P. Leahy
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy. — Rick Larsen
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. — Michael Badnarik
The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it. — Charles Lindbergh
People who feel the need to control others, don't have control over themselves.
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent. — Bill Hicks
One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis). — Michelle Alexander
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system. — Hassan Rouhani
In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?' — D. A. Carson
Giving Up Control Quotes
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. — Augustus Y. Napier
The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control. — Max Lucado
I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people - vaginas do? — Shannyn Moore
God would rather give up His son..than give up on us — Max Lucado
The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. — Michelle Pfeiffer
Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun. — John Harricharan
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. — Rob Bell
It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything. — Aubrey Plaza
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom. — Swami Vivekananda
Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time. — Ronald Reagan
Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions. — Nouman Ali Khan
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
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
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God. — Gemma Galgani
Who gets angry, loses. — Mexican Proverbs
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. — Paulo Coelho
Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds. — Richelle Mead
The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose.
Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win. — Aleksandr Karelin
I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society. — Marilyn Manson
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves. — Jay Roach
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help. — Bella Pollen
If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital. — John Irving
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements. — Roberto Assagioli
I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time. — Eric Cantona
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. — Joel Barlow
One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me. — Jenny Lawson
It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties. — Jeb Bush
The only guys that make it through are the guys that make it through are the guys that have a complete control of their ego where they tap out in the beginning, all the time, you're always losing in the beginning... Your ego can get bruised if you don't have control of it. So what ends up happens is Jiu Jitsu is the ultimate douchebag filter. — Eddie Bravo
There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful. — Lena Headey
No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics. — Thaddeus Golas
When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control. — Laura Poitras
Got to lose control before you take control. — Patti Smith
I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me. — Pink
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions. — Joyce Brothers
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us. — Brent Weeks
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret. — Jonathan Carroll
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. — Terry Gilliam
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism. — Najib Razak
Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. — Jon Hamm
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. — Larry Elder
I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams. — Marilu Henner
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity. — Gordon B. Hinckley
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