Quotes About Letting Others Control Your Life

#1. Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.

A.J. Darkholme

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#6. 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

#7. Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

Lena Dunham

#8. Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Max Lucado

#9. Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

Sunday Adelaja

#10. This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.

R.A. Nelson

#11. Letting go of the need to control things doesn't mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.

Marc David

#12. 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

#13. The sooner you learn to be kind to yourself, the sooner you will heal and move on with the life you want. It's time to stop letting other people run your life and control how you feel.

Paige Dearth

#14. Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

Tintoretto

#15. Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

Pope Leo XIII

#16. Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

Jon Landau

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

Jessica Hahn

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

Ethan Hawke

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.

Hannah Harrington

#27. You must learn that nobody can control everything in the flow of life," said Dart. "Control is something we all strive for - but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.

A. Grace Martin

#28. I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

Mary J. Blige

#29. 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

#30. I had such a tie with my eyes and my hands. I could look at a telephone pole 40 yards away, take out a 7-iron, and hit it 10 times in a row. I had something special. And somehow, I really understood the game, all without having a lot of guidance.

Billy Casper

#31. We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely

Antonio Guterres

#32. I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

John Hughes

#33. You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls.

John Green

#34. You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Steve Maraboli

#35. Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.

Alan Smith

#36. 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

#37. When you have succeeded in letting go of a trivial preoccupation or two, your awareness will begin to expand into the deeper sources of stress in your life, the bigger uncontrollable things that you have been at pains to control.

Linda Bender