Quotes About Control Over Life

#1. In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.

June Hunt

#3. Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

Aleksandar Hemon

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

Janet Evanovich

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

Dee Remy

#6. 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

#7. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. But it is a perfect world, and you have a perfect life. You do have the power to control your day. You do have the power to think good thoughts. You do have the power to live your dreams!

Robin S. Sharma

#9. Hope gives us a reason to live and to make plans for our future. But common sense gives us knowledge that God has control over our life. Life is a journey. We hope and plan our future as we travel each day.

Ellen J. Barrier

#10. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.

Kimberly Derting

#11. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.

Kyle Richardson

#12. It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Andy Van Slyke

#13. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Evita Ochel

#14. 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

#15. By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.

Radhe Maa

#16. 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

#17. If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. And let's face it: all of this remodeling made me feel like I was taking control of something in my life.

Catherine Tidd

#20. Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries and doubts.

Maddy Malhotra

#21. Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.

Gemma Malley

#22. 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

#23. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

Leon Brown

#25. At some point of our life, we will lose control of everything surrounds us and we will be controlled by the fate. That is the world's biggest lie.

Paulo Coelho

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

Edward M. Hallowell

#27. What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

Denzel Washington

#28. I hated that I wasn't in control. I hadn't been in control my entire life, and this was just another instance in which men believed they knew
better.

Pepper Winters

#29. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Gary Hopkins

#30. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

Rosellen Brown

#31. Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.

Steven Redhead

#32. God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

Jim George

#33. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#34. The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.

Bruce H. Lipton

#35. Love ... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

David Seabury

#36. Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.

Frederick Lenz

#37. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#38. For the first time in my whole life, I feel like I have control over the monsters in my head. For the first time in my life, I have hope.

Mia Sheridan

#39. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?

Katie Kacvinsky

#40. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Chuck Palahniuk

#41. You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.

Bob Proctor

#42. I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#43. The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Ayn Rand

#44. Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along.

C.J. Cherryh

#45. I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.

Kristen Stewart

#46. A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippmann

#47. You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life with the recognition that, all in all, you got better than you deserved.

David Brooks

#48. You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.

Isabel Vincent

#49. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.

Miya Yamanouchi

#50. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Laura Wasser

#51. Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.

Steve Maraboli

#52. Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Harry Browne

#53. Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.

Lily Allen

#54. Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#55. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#56. You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Your dream is a good one. [ ... ] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

Orson Scott Card

#58. Don't make people control your life, People only care about themselves. Live your life with happy and ignore Sick people.

Al-Hanouf Halawi

#59. I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

Wayne Rogers

#60. Are you in control of your life, or are circumstances in control of you.

Steven Redhead

#61. My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year.

Ted Nugent

#62. She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.

Gretchen McNeil

#63. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

Chaka Khan

#64. I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.

Christopher Hitchens

#65. Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

Michael Beckwith

#66. I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history [Mad men]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

Chris Matthews

#67. We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Francis Chan

#68. Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Tara Brach

#69. The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

Charles Horton Cooley

#70. If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Joel Osteen

#71. The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#72. Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#73. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.

Lisa Unger

#74. My inner control freak had taken the day off ... I had descended from the mountain of the perfect, into the valley of the possible, and was now on the happy shaded trail, dappled with sunlight, of the present. It was the most wonderful walk of my life.

Elizabeth Bard

#75. Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Nora Roberts

#76. Some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

Joan Didion

#77. The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.

Robert J. Wicks

#78. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.

John Wesley

#79. There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Marianne Williamson

#80. I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

Robin Hobb

#81. To me, 'busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.

Derek Sivers

#82. You can't control your feelings but you can control the actions that come with those feelings.

Craig Mercier

#83. Servitude is not easy. Obedience is not a one-time decision. Obedience is alife time discipline. But it does bring a cimplicty to life because it settles the issue of who is in control.

Susan Hunt

#84. The desire to live within our comfort zone and to be in control all the time is a denier of a fulfilling life that excites. Let go...

Assegid Habtewold

#85. Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Camille Henrot

#86. Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.

T.D. Jakes

#87. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.

Luigi Pirandello

#88. Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.'
'Don't think I care for that.

Mindy McGinnis

#89. The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life, one psychologist has remarked.

Alfie Kohn

#90. 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

#91. Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

Melody Beattie

#92. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets

Sunday Adelaja

#93. Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

#94. Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Michael Pare

#95. But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

Sheldon B. Kopp

#96. What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

Henri Nouwen

#97. Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

Michael Brooks

#98. The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

Ross Macpherson Smith

#99. Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.

Sam Owen

#100. You may not have the control to lengthen your life, but you can do much to deepen it.

Frank Sonnenberg