I Can Only Control Myself Quotes

#1. I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.

Crystal Reed

#2. I have tried to live my life by: I cannot control others. I can only control myself and my reactions to others. And when all else fails, I choose kindness. I show compassion. Then, if I have made poor choices, I have at least not damaged my spirit.

P.C. Cast

#3. Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men
over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the
control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many

G.K. Chesterton

#4. I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

Albert Oehlen

#5. In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#6. To control and to check means
that I act before I speak.
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
November 12, 2016

Petra Hermans

#7. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch

#8. Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Keith Miller

#9. I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

Steven Wright

#10. Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

Martin Rees

#11. I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Gordon Ramsay

#12. I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.

Clinton Portis

#13. When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. Not really. They're fighting to destroy their enemies.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#14. God was in control. He wouldn't take them through a season where He hadn't gone first.

Karen Kingsbury

#15. Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Tobias Wolff

#16. You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

Susan Sarandon

#17. You can't make me do nothing but die!

Richard Wright

#18. I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Michael Caine

#19. I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.

Cora Carmack

#21. I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Juliette.
I can't control a nightmare, but in my waking moments her name is the only reminder I will permit myself.

Tahereh Mafi

#23. Perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself. And that's something I'm still discovering day by day.

Cora Carmack

#24. There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it's going to happen.

Jon Lester

#25. 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

#26. I acknowledge that I can control only myself. I can't control how another person acts or reacts.

Lysa TerKeurst

#27. Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.

Kathryn Budig

#28. I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

Mac Danzig

#29. When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

Angela Ruggiero

#30. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so

Gavin De Becker

#31. Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

#32. I am in control of myself

Emily Snow

#33. I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

Lou Reed

#34. As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

Adam Smith

#35. Your life isn't out of control. It's expanded.

Janet Evanovich

#36. Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring to his love of coffee)

J. Golden Kimball

#37. Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations

Gretchen Rubin

#38. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

Auliq Ice

#39. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Angie Stone

#40. If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

#41. If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

Daniel Portman

#42. It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Wayne Dyer

#43. If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain.

Osho

#44. You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

Dee Remy

#45. There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control?

Cat Porter

#46. The audience wants control. They want freedom.

Kevin Spacey

#47. For those who protest that Mr. Obama will soon be out of office and irrelevant, read on and learn how his legacy of conscious control over every aspect of our lives will continue to function for generations to come. On

Alexandra York

#48. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.

Ron Paul

#49. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

Wendy Hoffman

#50. Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in control of your own life. And yet you act like you're permanently buffeted by events outside your control.

Jojo Moyes

#51. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.

Ruth Hegarty

#52. The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

Rush Limbaugh