Top 100 Quotes About Control Myself
#2. I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.
Mac Danzig
#3. I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
Sean Parker
#4. My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.
Hermann Maier
#5. When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.
Tom Barbash
#6. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.
Lewis Hamilton
#8. My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
Taylor Momsen
#9. I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi
#10. I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.
Sri Chinmoy
#11. And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He's in control.
Esther Earl
#12. 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
#13. I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.
Margo Lanagan
#14. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
Rufus Sewell
#15. I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking - I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?
Ben Aaronovitch
#16. One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can't control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, To hang out with Wesley.
Victoria Schwab
#17. I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.
King Tuff
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. And ultimately, when almost everything I did was controlled by the Superiors, by my teachers and by Paulo, I took what little control I could for myself and held onto it fiercely.
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
#21. Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.
David Stafford
#22. For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#23. I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.
Alex Karpovsky
#24. When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
Roddy Doyle
#25. I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.
Maria Shriver
#26. That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.
Felix Baumgartner
#27. I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.
Julie Payette
#28. If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
Stephen R. Covey
#29. When I went home ... I promised myself, I would take a cool shower and I would read. After a day spent dealing with others, television was just one more batch of voices to listen to; I'd rather have a book in my hands than the remote control.
Charlaine Harris
#30. Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
Philip Roth
#31. I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.
Dirk Nowitzki
#32. I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.
Sean Lennon
#33. I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#34. A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun
Shaquille O'Neal
#35. I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future.
Kelly Masterson
#36. I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.
Toni Braxton
#37. I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
Jane Austen
#38. I didn't understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.
Rachel Reiland
#39. I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.
Jimmy Nail
#40. For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.
Rob Roberge
#41. I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life.
Louise Hay
#42. 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
#43. Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do.
Blake Griffin
#44. It was easier to blame myself than to say that it was an accident that I had no control over. Losing control is one of the scariest things. That's why people are afraid of the dark. Or death. They're afraid of not being in control.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#45. I've been offered all the reality TV shows but have turned them down. If I did it as 'Johnny,' there'd be no jungle left! It was really hard regaining control of myself, so I am reluctant to let 'Johnny' back out of the box.
Johnny Vegas
#46. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#47. I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#48. I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.
Eric Drooker
#49. I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of a way to express myself than acting is, by far.
Alexandra Breckenridge
#50. I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn't control the happenings, it's like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes ...
JaszCab.
#51. I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit things back in the dugout, I try to quietly just put my helmet back. I may be very upset but I try to control myself.
Torii Hunter
#52. Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton.
Lisa Renee Jones
#53. i think about how - if I want to welcome the inevitable transformations of my life - I'm going to have to fully open myself to spirit-speak, to a seemingly cheesy-Earth-Momma vulnerability. I'm going to have to cede control - not just mentally or physically but also spiritually.
Leigh Ann Henion
#54. Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey
#55. I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...
Susan Hill
#56. You ever look for the remote control, but you can't find it, so you just decide, "Ah, guess I'm not watching TV. I'm not gonna take two steps and turn it on myself. I'll go to the gym if I'm going to work out."
Jim Gaffigan
#57. Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.
Jarvis Cocker
#58. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't
and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.
Rebecca Solnit
#59. I get over it quickly and never lose control of myself.
Colin Powell
#60. When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.
Michael Jackson
#61. I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#62. I'm lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on - I do stand-up comedy, and I have 'SNL.' That's where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I'm in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it's in the hands of the reader.
Michael Che
#63. Despite that it's 'Star Wars' and how huge it is, it's still work to me, and that element of things grounds you, especially from nerding out a few times. Although, some days I can't control myself.
John Boyega
#64. If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.
Rachael Taylor
#65. They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.
Teena Marie
#66. All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!
Lydia Kelly
#67. I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.
Christina Hendricks
#68. I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
Rose Byrne
#69. By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.
Seinabo Sey
#70. Juliette.
I can't control a nightmare, but in my waking moments her name is the only reminder I will permit myself.
Tahereh Mafi
#71. I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted was to have control- to be in charge of myself and the rest of the world.
Samantha Schutz
#72. I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!
Malcolm X
#73. I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.
Dave Gahan
#74. I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.
Ugo Mochi
#75. Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.
Ryohgo Narita
#76. It looked pretty wild, but I was actually in control of myself. I've never really injured anyone throughout my career.
Oliver Kahn
#77. I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
Barton Gellman
#78. I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
Nicki Minaj
#79. If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
Oprah Winfrey
#80. In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
Bruce Lee
#82. Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
Sherry Thomas
#83. You drive me wild, Brook. I don't know if I can control myself around you much longer.
Kitty Berry
#84. Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control
Jerry Pinto
#85. It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation ... all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.
Theodore Dreiser
#86. 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
#87. I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.
Amanda Peet
#88. I can't control myself, that's my problem.
Paulo Coelho
#89. The resistance, though it comes in many forms, begins with the mistaken belief that I am somehow separate from change, and that I can control it, rather than to align myself with change as it makes itself apparent, and ride it.
Sharon Weil
#90. Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.
Natalie Portman
#91. I loved being so consumed by Will. Adored it. But I kind of hated it too, because I felt like a huge part of myself had been wrested from my control. I mean, sometimes you just want to make a peanut butter sandwich without being overcome by your own passion, you know?
Michelle Dalton
#92. I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.
Burning Spear
#93. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.
Anne Frank
#94. I control it by being painfully honest about just how crazy I am. I control it by allowing myself to hide in bathrooms and under tables during important events. And sometimes I control it by letting it control me, because I have no other choice.
Jenny Lawson
#95. If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.
Eugene Cernan
#96. I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.
Brett Lee
#97. In a great show of self-control, I stopped myself from telling him to fuck off.
Richelle Mead
#98. This is outrageous!" Jagen bellows. "Grom, you need to get your siblings under control before I do it myself."
Galen rolls his eyes. Jagen is over 150 years old. If he wants to tussle with Galen, he's more than welcome to come closer.
Anna Banks
#100. It's funny
sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.
Chris Kyle
