Control Over Your Life Quotes

#1. Wishes are just wishes. Destiny is just destiny. And neither really has control over your life. Shit happens, shapes our lives, but doesn't have to shape who we are.

Jessica Sorensen

#2. You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Marshall Sylver

#3. There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself.

J.D. Vance

#4. Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

Charlie Hunnam

#5. You are a hologram of the world around you, and in that hologram, whatever you do inside yourself shows itself in your outside, and that means you have total control over your life and your creations and experiences by just going inside.

Maha Devi Li Ra La

#6. When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

Suze Orman

#7. By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

Kyle Maynard

#8. If you continue to blame other people for "making" you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

Henry Cloud

#9. Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

Cheri Huber

#10. Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.

Susan Neiman

#11. I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. Just don't take the part if you feel like it's a stereotypical part for you. You have control over your life. We don't have the old studio system, where you have to do what they tell you.

John C. Reilly

#12. In the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

Lisa Unger

#13. Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

Larry King

#14. The only person who should have control over your life is God. You're not super woman. Sometimes you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can save anybody else.

Norma Jarrett

#15. 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

#16. You need to decide what you want for yourself. You want to go home? There's a price. You want control over your life? There's a price. You want the freedom to say no? There's a price. There's always a price.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Ali Vincent

#18. Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.

Lauren Henderson

#19. Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#20. Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Harvey MacKay

#21. Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.

Jose N. Harris

#22. Time. It takes control over us and when we realize this, it's often too late. That's again the power of time. See? It's sort of a vicious circle. Take control of your precious time and live life to the fullest.

Tessa Vanluchene

#23. The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

David Mitchell

#24. Change your thought, change your mind.
Change your belief, change your action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it's over.
There is no safe. There is no control.

Susane Colasanti

#26. We want more people owning things in this country. (Applause.) Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have
control over your own life.

George W. Bush

#27. To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.

Anita Roddick

#28. Don't BELIEVE everything you read and see on the socialmedia! Don't let LIKES & RT brainwash your mind, take control over your time and take you away from your life, family & responsibilities!

Lily Amis

#29. Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

Maggie Siff

#30. We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

Rudy Giuliani

#31. Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

Paul Kane

#32. When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Nancy Werlin

#33. Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

Marla Gibbs

#34. Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants' use to dwell, ... 'Tis to be slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.

Noam Chomsky

#35. In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Rahul Dravid

#36. You know, sweetheart, I know I'm fucked up. But if you think the guy trying to protect you instead of walk all over you is the one trying to run your life, you're just as fucked up as I am.

Lisa Renee Jones

#37. You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that you can control, and in learning how to control and direct it, you will have great power over what is going to happen.

Bob Proctor

#38. 8The LORD says, I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you.+ 9Do not be like a senseless horse or mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.

Anonymous

#39. Yes, it feels great to plan your life when you believe everything can turn out fine. But what about when you're shown, again and again, how little control you have over anything? No matter what I do to try to fix my future, it doesn't work.

Jay Asher

#40. Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway"
"A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

John Wayne

#41. 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

#42. Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control
yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

Tony Robbins

#43. A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of What am I missing?

Edward M. Hallowell

#44. Watch the little things in life, the ones you have control over. Keep your eyes glued to the peas and every speck of dust on the floor.

Paul Zindel

#45. Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

Jennifer Hudson

#46. A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life

Sunday Adelaja

#48. You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

Sonia Friedman

#49. There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

Arthur De Vany

#50. There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

Carleton Young

#51. I could think back to my encounters with rules and regulations that didn't seem to make much sense to me, and have empathy for my children's frustrations. I understood as a very young boy that to blindly follow rules just because they're rules is to lose control over your whole life.

Wayne W. Dyer

#52. The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks

#53. You must learn that nobody can control everything in the flow of life," said Dart. "Control is something we all strive for - but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.

A. Grace Martin

#54. You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Jack Canfield

#55. Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Saul Williams

#56. Inorder to accept any sort of change, you must realize that you do not have control over everything in your life.

Auliq Ice

#57. Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?

Jai Courtney

#58. Life is a short, wild ride. Don't try to put the brakes on, don't over-analyze or try to control it. If you're lucky, like I was, you'll find that perfect someone who'll sit next to you and hold your hand through every curve, every up and down.

Emma Chase

#59. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Alice Cooper

#60. Addictions are an attempt to preserve control over your feelings and your life and respond assertively to helplessness.

Lance Dodes

#61. After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

Cherry Jones

#62. So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

Eveth N Colley