Things You Can Control Quotes

#1. You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

Jonathan Toews

#2. Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

Claire Carver-Dias

#3. Invest your energy in the things you can control.

Steve Backley

#4. There's only certain things you can control. I know how hard I work, I know how I take care of myself, and those are the two things I can control. As far as injuries and wear and tear and stuff like that, it's going to happen.

Jon Lester

#5. When you're faced with a significantly life-altering negative situation you can't control, you grasp at the little things you can control. The little opportunities where you can make choices for yourself.

Josh Sundquist

#6. I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.

John Travolta

#7. I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

Bryan Cranston

#8. People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic.

John Addison

#9. Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Control the things you can control .

Samantha Stosur

#11. My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don't get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.

Bernie Williams

#12. Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

Stephen King

#13. One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

John Bytheway

#14. Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. The things you can control and the things you cannot.

Tara Conklin

#16. It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Wayne Dyer

#17. If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

Daniel Portman

#18. People are going to think and take things how they're going to take it, and I have no control over that, so it's kind of like biding time until you get your feedback. So, it's like, once the public can consume what you're putting out there, then you know. Then you know hit, miss, in between.

Phil Anselmo

#19. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Wayne W. Dyer

#21. Mom said to me, "You can't control how things turn out. It's what's in your heart that matters most.

Curtis Moser

#22. Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

Kate Thompson

#23. Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Nora Roberts

#24. You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

Jeb Bush

#25. If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can.

Ron Johnson

#26. Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it.

A.J. Compton

#27. You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.

Kody Keplinger

#28. Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Celine Dion

#29. Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down.

Sherene McHenry

#30. You cannot control bad things that happen to you any more than you can control the weather. It's less about the things that happen and more about how you react to them.

Robert J. Crane

#31. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

John Gerzema

#32. You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

Li Ka-shing

#33. Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Cecelia Ahern

#34. That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

Peter Dinklage

#35. Accepting a situation doesn't mean you have to be okay with it. You can take steps to change things, but then you need to detach from the outcome & accept how things turn out. You keep doing your best & accept reality. If you keep getting upset over things you have no control over, you have no peace

Brenda Wilhelmson

#36. If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.

Cath Crowley

#37. I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.

Beth Harbison

#38. I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

Mackenzie Davis

#39. God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

#40. You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Michael Steele

#41. Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Stuart Dybek

#42. I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.

David Gordon Green

#43. There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

Carleton Young

#44. To all my fellow Americans who simply insist on hangin' on to those guns ... Two things: 1) Enjoy 'em! 2) Please keep them hidden in a safe, secure place where the young 'uns can't get at 'em (I'd suggest the same place you keep the textbooks on evolution and global warming).

Quentin R. Bufogle

#45. Don't worry about what you can't control.

Tim Tebow

#46. You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Epictetus

#47. It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

Sarah Dessen

#48. Sometimes when a plan is right, everything else, all the things you can't control, falls into place just the way it should.

Janet Evanovich

#49. It is liberating once you let go of the things that you can't control.

Mark Owen

#50. When you're not playing your head can drop, and you can get a bit negative. I try to tell them that there are a lot of things they can't control, selection being one of them, and that they should just try to stay positive.

Filo Tiatia

#51. what has happened is out of your and my control, we can't change that ever, but what we can do is forget. The worse things of past and accept your present with its purity and its real shine, remember my friend this is the only way you can live happily

Pritesh Bhosale

#52. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

Amalie Howard

#53. I've been in love before. It's like narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can control things. You think about the person for two minutes and forget them for three hours.

Paulo Coelho

#54. Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

Gayle Forman

#55. Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Andy Law

#56. With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

Scott Tolzien

#57. Control is an illusion - a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage.

Harriet Lerner

#58. Despite that it's 'Star Wars' and how huge it is, it's still work to me, and that element of things grounds you, especially from nerding out a few times. Although, some days I can't control myself.

John Boyega

#59. I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Mos Def

#60. Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.

Keeley Hawes

#61. The past is a tricky thing and we let it define us when we should embrace the here and now, and all that's still coming. You need to let yourself live from a place of love, not from a place of fear over the things you can't control.

Jennifer Farwell

#62. You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

Michael Chabon

#63. I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.

Anna Agoncillo

#64. You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like what
happens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.
It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how you
react. That's the trick.

Katie Kacvinsky

#65. You don't plan life, it just happens. And you sure as hell can't control the things that happen to you. They just do.

Ines Vieira

#66. I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Sarah Snook

#67. It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

Lacey Chabert

#68. At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

Susan Dey

#69. At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

Kevin Garnett

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

Courtney Summers

#71. There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Mark Cuban

#72. Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

Tony Dungy

#73. You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat.

Scott Hall

#74. Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.

Joyce Meyer

#75. One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

Matt Dillon

#76. The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

Mark Cuban

#77. My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

Jared Kushner

#78. You sound like a control freak." The words are out of my mouth before I can stop them.
"Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele," he says without a trace of humor in his smile.

E.L. James

#79. There was only so much worrying you could do before you just had to accept what life throws at you and move on, because some things were going to be out of your control, and others can't be fixed or changed.

Jenn Bennett

#80. Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily.-RVM

R.v.m.

#81. In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

Judi Dench

#82. If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Dickinson

#83. You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

Ashley Rickards

#84. Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#85. I wish someone had told me this simple but confusing truth: Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect.

Jenny Lawson

#86. You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

Helen Steiner Rice

#87. 'Magic Mike' is about guys learning that sometimes you can't control your life; you have to trust your intentions and instincts and let the road take you where it wants to go. It's about trusting that things will make sense when you look back, not when you look forward.

Reid Carolin

#88. The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.

Mike Sherman

#89. It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.

Robbie Lawler

#90. I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

Walter Dean Myers

#91. Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come.

Karen Salmansohn

#92. I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.

Robin Williams

#93. People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

Gary Oldman

#94. Oh, Van. Don't you know? Home is where your mind goes when the night is black and your heart is hurting. Home is where you go when things are happening that you can't control but wish you could. Home is where the person you love is waiting for you.

Shelley Gray

#95. Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

Vince Staples

#96. Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

Epictetus

#97. Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Joel Osteen

#98. I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.

Sachin Tendulkar

#99. There are things in your life that you can't control and gotta live with ...

Nick Vujicic

#100. 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