Quotes About Taking Control Of Life

#1. I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Antony Gormley

#2. Power in Service - The carnal man can never be used in spiritual service. There is so much of the self life about him that God cannot gain control. The Spirit-filled life is necessary for fruitful Christian service.

Oswald J. Smith

#3. Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.

Epictetus

#4. To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

Norman Lock

#5. Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.

Larry Winget

#6. Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.

Jose N. Harris

#7. We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

Rudy Giuliani

#8. Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway.

Sara Secora

#9. True life balance takes concentration, confidence, self-esteem, a positive mental attitude, and self-control. It's a challenge, for sure, but it's a challenge worth taking on.

Jay Rifenbary

#10. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

Rolf Potts

#11. Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Warren G. Bennis

#12. Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

Heather Schuck

#13. Men and women are what they make of themselves.

Seth Adam Smith

#14. If you fatally kill fate,
your life sentence will be
to steer the reins of choice.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#15. All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#16. Sevro snorts. "What do you think I've been doing this whole time, you silky turd? Wanking off in the bushes?"
Cassius and I look at each other.
"Kind of," I say.
"Yeah, actually," Cassius agrees.

Pierce Brown

#17. The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

Vanessa Veselka

#18. That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Joseph O'Connor

#19. To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held.

Clayton Christensen

#20. Love is the only reason that is reason enough

Kamand Kojouri

#21. The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

Erich Maria Remarque

#22. Taking care of the details was probably how Merritt took back control, and Loralee wondered whether every girl who lost her mother did the same thing when life got muddier than a puddle.

Karen White

#23. Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Adolf Hitler

#24. By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#25. Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.

Steven Redhead

#26. I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

Ellen Hopkins

#27. If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Dave Pelzer

#28. Taking responsibility of your life and knowing the fact that YOU attract people and events in your life is scary, isn't it?

Maddy Malhotra

#29. Homeworkers embody the real American Dream. Not fame or fortune, but being your own boss. Calling your own shots. Taking control of your life, not necessarily to work more--or less--but to work the way you want to work.

Lionel Fisher

#30. Lying there in bed, dangling in a zone somewhere between sleep and consciousness, he was overcome by a strange feeling: that he was losing control of his life, and for the first time in recent years was unsure of the direction it was taking him. Carl Dias reflects on life in RACING WITH THE RAIN

Ken Puddicombe

#31. Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

Yukito Kishiro

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

Catherine Tidd

#33. I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

Benjamin F. Wade

#34. My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us.

Emma Thompson

#35. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Finding love is all about taking a risk, taking control of your social life, and knowing that you won't waste today because tomorrow is a gift.

Fran Greene

#36. Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose, especially when it applies to young people. It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.

Stieg Larsson

#37. 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

Robert Browning

#38. I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

Neil Tennant

#39. One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Terence McKenna

#40. We become what we habitually contemplate

George Russell

#41. It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

Lucy Diamond