Top 100 You Can Control Quotes
#1. There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control?
Cat Porter
#2. If you change the rules on what controls you ... you will change the rules on what you can control.
Guy Ritchie
#3. There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.
Kenneth Chenault
#4. Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton
#5. You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
Sara Rue
#6. Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.
James Woods
#7. The things you can control and the things you cannot.
Tara Conklin
#8. It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
Steve Berry
#9. You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.
Debasish Mridha
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.
Hamid Karzai
#13. You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
Ann Patchett
#14. You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.
Woody Allen
#15. You control what you can control - your image, the way you conduct yourself, the way you let men talk to and approach you - and use that to get the relationship you want.
Steve Harvey
#17. Nobody sits down and says, 'Well, I'm going to write a bad book.' They sit down to write a great book, but it doesn't always turn out like that. The writer may do his best and still write a so-so book, and other times, it just flows easily. But I don't know how you can control that.
Gilbert Morris
#18. You can control a lot of things, but your heart is not one of them
Elizabeth LaShaun
#19. It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
Kim Edwards
#20. 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
#21. To keep children healty, it's important to keep them active. Of course you can control what goes into their mouths, but it's also about putting the active back into family activity. Go outside with them, live in the moment and encourage them. That'll help you find fulfillment in your life as well.
Jennie Finch
#22. If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding ... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.
Jane Clayson Johnson
#23. You are a compilation of choices. And you can control that.
Brian Bennudriti
#24. You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future.
Steven Redhead
#25. You cannot stop thoughts flying through your mind, but you can control what thoughts you give a landing space.
Antony Paul Maina
#26. Inside the big world that you cannot control, you have the small world of you that you can control. In that small world, if you look, you can see whether to go this way toward good, or the other way toward bad.
Roland Merullo
#27. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy
#28. Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.
Roger Ebert
#29. Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.
Alex Gibney
#30. The problem of "Command-Control is that you can control people's behavior, but not their mind.
Pearl Zhu
#31. 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
#32. You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth
Billy Graham
#33. You can't control how other people hurt you, Ashley. But you can control how you hurt yourself.
Aimee L. Salter
#34. You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.
Alain Vigneault
#35. You can't control other people's actions, but you can control who "thinks" they have control over you.
Shannon L. Alder
#36. Remember, it is not the snake bite that kills, but the venom which circulates afterwards that is fatal. Do not let the snake bite of another person release any venom inside of you. You can control its entry and you are responsible for every thought in your mind.
Robin Sharma
#37. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Napoleon Hill
#38. The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.
Sophia Amoruso
#39. When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.
Megan Abbott
#40. During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.
Rajneesh
#41. You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.
Suzy Kassem
#42. You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that you can control, and in learning how to control and direct it, you will have great power over what is going to happen.
Bob Proctor
#44. You can't control your emotion,
but you can control your action
Hlovate
#45. Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.
Debasish Mridha
#46. And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
Vanessa Williams
#47. You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.
Sanford I. Weill
#48. I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.
Romola Garai
#49. You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
Tony Robbins
#50. I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.
Patrick Ness
#51. Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change.
Nick Saban
#52. RVM Thoughts for Today -
Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily
R.v.m.
#53. By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.
Ilchi Lee
#55. If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.
A. C. Green
#56. When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
Portia De Rossi
#57. Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
Rita Mae Brown
#59. Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.
Mark Cuban
#60. If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
David Lynch
#61. You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
Tony Robbins
#62. It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
Stephen Covey
#63. You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.
Kirsten Hubbard
#64. Sure, shit happens we can't control, but that's exactly what it is: shit you can't control. You can't control what it is, or sometimes what it does to you. But like I've told you before, you can control how you feel about it, how you deal with it.
Bobby Adair
#65. It's not our job to make people like us if they don't want to. It's not our job to change people. That's beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.
Taylor Swift
#66. You can't control what anyone else says or does." Spencer tucked a wayward lock behind her ear. "But you can control how you respond to them.
Terri Osburn
#67. 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
#68. you can't control what people pay attention to.You can control what you do with the attention given to you.
K.J. Kilton
#69. At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
Holly Holm
#70. Control your thoughts and you can control your emotions. Do you trust me?
Louise Penny
#71. No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!
Rob Dyrdek
#72. You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.
Hilary Mantel
#73. If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.
David Levithan
#74. While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart ... once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.
Leigh Newman
#75. There is always pressure in this game and outside of it but as long as you control what you can control the pressure will be used to my advantage, like what the saying goes 'no pressure, no diamonds'.
Joanne Calderwood
#76. You can't control what happens, but you can control how you choose to respond. You can do everything right and still fail! - Ken Ravizza
Chris Riddoch
#77. The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#78. The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
#79. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#80. You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else
Marie Sexton
#81. My friend, only focus on things that you can control. If you have a fixable problem, fix it. If it is not fixable, move on to something that is.
Clay Clark
#82. 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
#83. I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
Bryan Cranston
#84. 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
#85. All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.
John Wooden
#86. You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.
Jon Spaihts
#87. 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
#88. To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.
Mia Wasikowska
#89. What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.
Kevin McCarthy
#90. You're not going to let her do this, are you?" Bones snorted. "Let her? Mate, if you think you can control a woman, you must be single - -and a thousand pounds says she beats your arse.
Jeaniene Frost
#91. Honey, love isn't like rappeling into a cave, where you can control your descent and how deep you go. It's just falling into the hole.
Shannon Stacey
#92. Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it. You can't always control your circumstances, but you can control the way you process them.
Max Lucado
#93. Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come.
Karen Salmansohn
#94. Bones snorted. "Let her? Mate, if you think you can control a woman, you must be single
Jeaniene Frost
#95. It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.
Robbie Lawler
#96. You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
Foster Friess
#97. Let's make a deal. You can control me in the bedroom, Zeth, but out of the bedroom, we're partners. I act under advisement, and so do you. Fair?
Callie Hart
#98. While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.
Martin E.P. Seligman
#99. I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.
Pete Wentz
#100. In many situations, the only thing you can control is your own response. Changing self-talk from negative to positive is an excellent way to manage that response. Anger destroys your health and relationships.
Maddy Malhotra
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