Beyond Your Control Quotes

#1. It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

#2. 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

#3. You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Lydia Leonard

#4. Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#5. Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Robin Sharma

#6. You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn't determine who you are. You must all realize what you're worth on your own.

Koushun Takami

#7. Seek not the power to create things under your control. Seek rather to manifest that which is beyond your control.

Ross Hostetter

#8. You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

Sara Gruen

#9. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.

Archibald Marwizi

#10. No one gets found in love. Everyone gets lost in it, Because love is overwhelming. Its beyond your control. You have to relinquish control to be in love. And that's a good thing. There's a beauty to being lost in something bigger than you.

Andrew Kaufman

#11. To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control ...

T. S. Eliot

#12. No matter how hard you try to move on, sometimes forces beyond your control won't let you.

Alison G. Bailey

#13. The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

#14. Maybe the kid gravitated to Zeb for the same reason children like dinosaurs: when feeling abandoned in a world of forces beyond your control, it's comforting to have a huge, scaly beast who is your friend.

Margaret Atwood

#15. So grieve what you hadto do. Mourn it, but never, ever blame yourself for things that are beyond your control.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. I believe that you get to write part of the script of your life, and some of it is written by forces beyond your control.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#17. As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

William James

#18. if you continue allowing external circumstances to dictate how you feel, you'll always be at the mercy of the situations in your life that are completely beyond your control.

Dana Wilde

#19. Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.

Nathaniel Fick

#21. Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

M. Scott Peck

#22. Love was the ultimate act of courage, he understood now. Because you had to go into it knowing it could be snatched away by forces beyond your control. and if that happened, you'd be a shell of a person, a shadow of yourself, and nothing would be any good again.

Louisa Edwards

#23. It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Dick Van Dyke

#24. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

#25. When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Kathleen Kennedy

#26. All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control

Frank Zappa

#27. Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise ...

Paramahansa Yogananda

#28. An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#29. When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

Rudy Giuliani

#30. As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this perspective was outweighed by the nobility that came with the struggle.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#31. Don't let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

Barbara Johnson

#32. Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi