Quotes About Controlling Yourself

#1. Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Benjamin Graham

#2. I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself ... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.

Cub Swanson

#3. History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

James Madison

#4. I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

Dave Chappelle

#5. Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Karl Pilkington

#6. Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

Dorothy Denning

#7. China's critics rightly condemn the government for controlling public opinion in all sorts of ways, from imprisoning dissidents to censoring internet discussions. Yet the regime's obsession with control paradoxically means it pays close attention to public opinion.

Anonymous

#8. With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

Debasish Mridha

#9. but everyone knew there was no controlling Eli Barreto. The idiot had been born with hell in his veins.

Mariana Zapata

#10. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.

Shirley Bourget

#11. It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

Grimes

#12. Love is a controlling power, when it takes over; your senses, your life, and your soul are taken over.

Alloy Francis

#13. Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That's why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

Paul David Tripp

#17. Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

Oswald Mosley

#18. The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.

Janet Yellen

#19. You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#20. I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

Adam Goucher

#21. Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves...

Assegid Habtewold

#22. If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

William J.H. Boetcker

#23. No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

Marianne Williamson

#24. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

#25. All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Florence Welch

#26. Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Bill Shankly

#27. Are you in control of your time so you can live your life as a human being? Or is time controlling you so you have become a human doing? Are you do busy doing this and that for other people but never have time for yourself?

Marsha Petrie Sue

#28. Prohibit omens altogether. You can best predict your future by controlling it yourself, not by trusting luck or fate to control it.

Sun Tzu

#29. If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. I want each of you to go through life making the most of your individuality. Like it or not, you will go out into the real world and be treated as an adult. Adults show each other no mercy. If you fail to cultivate within yourself a fight-back mentality, society will end up controlling you.

Tadao Ando

#31. Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

John C. Maxwell

#32. What does it matter, to tell yourself that the thing controlling you comes from outside, if in fact you only experience it inside your own heart? Where can you run from it? How can you hide?

Orson Scott Card

#33. Keep yourself healthy, my butt. Next you'll be flipping them all nasty one-handed gestures and telling me its an AMA approved method of controlling your blood pressure.

Susan Andersen

#34. If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#35. I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

Caroline Knapp

#36. If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

Wendell Willkie

#37. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ...

R.K. Lilley

#38. 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

#39. I should probably warn you, my love isn't roses and champagne. I'm obsessive, jealous, and controlling, but I'm faithful and I'll be here when you need someone.

Suzanne Steele

#40. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

Mark Shields

#41. You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Paul Auster

#42. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter

#43. A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

Oliver Ellsworth

#44. I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.

Daryl Wein

#45. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Tommy Franks

#46. The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

Bashar Al-Assad

#47. I was a weekend drinker ... I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday ... thought I was controlling it ... but I don't drink any more.

Bill Hicks

#48. Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#49. 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

#50. Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

Tariq Ramadan

#51. A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Melody Beattie

#52. The purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for control - whether it's rape, reproductive rights, or violence against women, it's our bodies that are the battleground, not men's.

Jessica Valenti

#53. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins

#54. I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#55. You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely.

Octavia E. Butler

#56. I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Luis Fortuno

#57. Love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Tracie Peterson

#58. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

#59. Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important
currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.

Rod Steiger

#60. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

T.F. Hodge

#61. If you take the meaning out of the world, all that's left is controlling each other.

L.T. Vargus

#62. Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Ian McEwan

#63. If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Timothy Keller

#64. I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Justina Chen

#65. Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it.

Keith Johnstone

#66. Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

Scott Westerfeld