Top 100 Cannot Control Quotes
#1. A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
David O. McKay
#2. No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
Stephen Kinzer
#3. A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.
Russell Brand
#4. You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
Robert D. Kaplan
#6. The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.
Milton Friedman
#7. We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will.
Toni Sorenson
#8. When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.
Joyce Meyer
#9. We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Alan Keyes
#12. In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. Life is not unfair. We just have to learn to let go of the things that weigh us down and move on from situations that we cannot control.
Trish Kaye Lleone
#15. Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.
Mark Simpson
#16. Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#17. In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik
#18. Inside the big world that you cannot control, you have the small world of you that you can control. In that small world, if you look, you can see whether to go this way toward good, or the other way toward bad.
Roland Merullo
#19. You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
Robert Ringer
#20. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy
#21. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.
J.C. Reed
#22. Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
Tariq Ramadan
#23. Anna used to say that the Buddhists meditate about reactions. That we cannot control WHAT happens to us, only how we react to it.
Suzanne Hayes
#24. My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don't get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.
Bernie Williams
#25. Horror movies in a sense are about the things that you cannot control, cannot define and the things that you are afraid of, and that is what the boogey man is. The boogey man doesn't have a backstory, he is just the thing you fear and I think it is important to celebrate that aspect of horror.
Larry Fessenden
#26. I think the issue of women's choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives - if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.
Tavis Smiley
#27. You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be.
L.K. Elliott
#28. Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.
John Patrick Hickey
#29. I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
Samantha Morton
#30. You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
Mark Hyman
#31. Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me.
Santosh Kalwar
#32. Person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.
Robert Greene
#33. Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
Otto Von Bismarck
#34. I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall ... For a control freak, it's hard.
Naomi Campbell
#35. You don't win a game by focusing on things you cannot control. You win it by focusing on those things that you can.
Melissa McPhail
#36. You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
Kiersten White
#37. Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.
Jon Spaihts
#38. We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
Elizabeth George
#39. I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
Cameron Van Der Burgh
#40. Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.
John C. Maxwell
#41. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
#42. You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.
Rafael Benitez
#43. I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E.Lee
#44. To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
James A. Baldwin
#45. I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
Erin McKeown
#46. We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav
#47. Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.
Harold S. Kushner
#48. People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.
Richard Rohr
#49. How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#50. Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
Ariana Godoy
#51. Get the
Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life
of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot
pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines.
Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the
nation.
Eustace Mullins
#52. If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
A.W. Tozer
#53. I am young, and, therefor, I know my words only carry a certain weight in the world, but I do know enough to realize you cannot control the actions of others. You can only control what you do with yourself afterward.
Renee Ahdieh
#54. There are things we cannot control about ourselves. One of these things is the degree to which we find something to be funny. It
Chuck Klosterman
#55. There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.
James Ellroy
#56. In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. - EPICTETUS
Ryan Holiday
#57. Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
Leon Uris
#58. The problem is that "bad men obey their lusts as servants obey their masters," and because they cannot control their desires, they can never find contentment.4
William B. Irvine
#59. I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.
Roz Savage
#61. My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.
Adrian Piper
#63. Accomplishment is one part commitment, one part ability, one part persistence, and one part circumstance. Circumstance we cannot control. The rest we might.
Dee Hock
#64. A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Ronald Reagan
#65. Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.
Paul Auster
#66. We cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.
Jack Canfield
#67. Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness ... Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through ...
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#68. You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.
Nancy D. Butler
#69. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#71. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras
#72. Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.
Darren Johnson
#73. whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.
Samina Ali
#74. There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can ... Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.
David Guterson
#75. You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Johnny Hunt
#76. We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
Claude Shannon
#77. We need to simplify life. Do you think grass thinks about who trod on it yesterday? No... It just continues to grow. And so should you. You cannot control who treads on you, but you do control your own growth. Don't ever let others inhibit you!
Tony Curl
#78. Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.
Jeffrey Fry
#79. No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
Jerry Bridges
#80. I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.
Erin Willett
#82. I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who comes in and says, 'Hi,' to everyone and goes up and makes friends.
Catherine Tate
#83. Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic."
You both sound like my mother," I said.
Shut up!" they both said in union.
Rick Riordan
#84. If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine
#85. Awaken yourself by stopping your preoccupation with what you think you know, and instead rest comfortably in the not knowing. Embrace possibility and potential. Do not fear the unknown or that which you cannot control.
Alfred James
#86. I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.
Margery Allingham
#87. democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
Robert D. Kaplan
#88. One thing you cannot control is nature.
Diana Ross
#89. The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
Simon Van Booy
#90. Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
Philip Yancey
#91. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky
#92. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.
Lawrence Samuels
#93. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#94. It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
Lemony Snicket
#95. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
Penelope Leach
#96. The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
Shimon Peres
#97. Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.
Billy Graham
#98. Idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Eula Biss
#99. I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.
Jojo Moyes
#100. She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.
My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire - no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
Beth Revis
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