Stop Trying To Control Quotes

#1. Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

Melody Beattie

#2. Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#4. Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

Melody Beattie

#5. Lillian was always so good at treating everything like a test, like some kind of game where the prize was shiny and untouchable. Perfection. She wanted me to back off, butt out, stop trying to control her life. And she wanted me to save her.

Brenna Yovanoff

#6. If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control and manipulate others "for their own good," knowing full well that this is not how God works among His people. - The Signature of Jesus

Brennan Manning

#7. Stop trying to control how you feel, and instead take control of what you do.

Russ Harris

#8. Stop trying to stay safe, stop trying to control your feelings. Don't put up an umbrella, feel the rain.

Fabian Black

#9. Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.

Melody Beattie

#10. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Laozi

#11. 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

#12. Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.

Julian Castro

#13. We need to take a harder look at what's really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.

Aaron B. Powell

#14. If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

Dana Hill

#15. We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

Barack Obama

#16. What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.

Liam Gillick

#17. Stop it, she told herself.
There was only so much she could control.
But that was just it. She was trying so hard because she felt so out of control.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you're lost in the forest, let the horse find the way home. You have to stop directing, because you will only get in the way.

Anne Lamott

#19. When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.

Bob Anderson

#20. Providence ever turns bad to the good, if you have eyes to see it.

D.M. Cornish

#21. When people say that German or any other language is romantic ... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language.

John Irving

#22. I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

Richard Stallman

#23. The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

Jeanne Phillips

#24. The cornerstone of our thoughts begins with the spirited flames of our far-reaching imagination.

Ian Segal

#25. How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"
too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?
Too afraid to give up ... control.

Nicole Deese

#26. Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

Charles Schumer

#27. You're not responsible for everything, Parker. You can't control the way things end up. Stop trying.

Courtney Summers

#28. So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

John W. Thompson

#29. Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

Michael Treanor