Relinquish Control Quotes

#1. God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#2. Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

G.B. Gordon

#3. A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.

Daniel Humm

#4. In order to help children make the most of their education, parents must begin to relinquish control and focus on three goals: embracing opportunities to fail, finding ways to learn from that failure, and creating positive home-school relationships.

Jessica Lahey

#5. Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Julia Cameron

#6. I relinquish control. Not that she'd ever fully had it. In four swift strides, he was on her, lifting her, and slamming her back against the nearest wall.

Pam Godwin

#7. No one gets found in love. Everyone gets lost in it, Because love is overwhelming. Its beyond your control. You have to relinquish control to be in love. And that's a good thing. There's a beauty to being lost in something bigger than you.

Andrew Kaufman

#8. When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.

Peter Santos

#9. Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.

M.J. DeMarco

#10. If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

Deepak Chopra

#11. We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.

Thuli Madonsela

#12. There isn't any drug worse than money. Madness, deceptions and criminal behavior emerge from the need of more of it.

Robin Sacredfire

#13. But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.

Joan D. Chittister

#14. Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Jon Lord

#15. I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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

Sara Secora

#17. When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

#18. Hope is a gift of the Spirit. It is a hope that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the power of His Resurrection, we shall be raised unto life eternal and this because of our faith in the Savior.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#19. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money - or the lack of it.

Agatha Christie

#21. Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

Mark Waters

#22. In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#23. If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

Charles Dance

#24. Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Lionel Trilling

#25. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Siri Hustvedt

#26. Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Carlos Castaneda

#27. 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