Quotes About Taking Control Of Your Life

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

Bruce Dickinson

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

Heather Schuck

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Sara Secora

#12. Money is just dirty paper with dead presidents' pictures on it.

Carolyn Brown

#13. I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

Walt Frazier

#14. Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Seth Adam Smith

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

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Catherine Tidd

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

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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

Steven Redhead

#25. 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

#26. Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have ...

John Powell

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Yukito Kishiro

#30. Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

Swami Vivekananda

#31. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Robert M. Pirsig

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

Mark Miller

#36. I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#37. 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