Quotes About Control And Letting Go

#1. If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

Charlene Li

#2. Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

Kelly Martin

#3. I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.

Raul Castillo

#4. The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you're in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don't control.

Steve Maraboli

#5. I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

Kristen Stewart

#6. We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Lester Levenson

#7. When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Geri Larkin

#8. We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

Angeles Arrien

#9. Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.

Nikki Gil

#11. All you gotta do is chill out ... Let go of control and chill out ... Let it be, Trust.

Esther Hicks

#12. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

Marsha M. Linehan

#13. Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.

Henry Kimsey-House

#14. 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

#15. You need to hire and develop great people. You need to set the vision and trust them to do the right thing. You need to let go of control. That's wonderful for all involved because you're empowering and trusting your people to do what's right for the brand.

Frances Allen

#16. There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

SARK

#17. Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

Max Weiss

#18. Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

David Richo

#19. And I know
The scariest part is letting go
Cause love is a ghost you can't control

Christina Perri

#20. When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Darren Johnson

#21. And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.

Michael Neill

#22. There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

David W. Earle

#23. It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual 'magic' causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary suffering and prevents the development of emotional resilience.

Christopher Dines

#24. During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.

Gina Greenlee

#25. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

Stephen Richards

#26. 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

#27. With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

Gloria Gaither

#28. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

Madeleine L'Engle

#29. Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

Melody Beattie

#30. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

Stephen Richards

#31. Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz

#32. Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.
But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?
Then you deal with it and keep going.

Lord, Cynthia

#33. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Laozi

#34. To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us.

David W. Earle

#35. The trick, I realized, was in letting go enough to simply accept the challenging times and experience life in all its messy glory instead of trying to predict or control our reality.

Laura Bradbury

#36. Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

John Hagee

#37. As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

Nicole Kidman

#38. As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Aretha Franklin

#39. Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life's current.

Tom Shadyac

#40. Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.

Brian Weiss

#41. I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#42. Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!

Michael Barbarulo

#43. Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.

Gudjon Bergmann

#44. The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

Laozi

#45. There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.

Steve Maraboli

#46. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much - too tiring - and you consider letting go.

Jay Asher