Top 100 You Can Only Control Quotes
#1. As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
Victoria Osteen
#2. The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
Alexander Elder
#4. You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
Emily Giffin
#5. you can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. It was his way of reminding us that you can't control most of what happens in life. You can only control your reaction to it.
Kristen Proby
#6. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Stephen Richards
#7. You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.
Kerry Washington
#8. You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.
Maya Banks
#9. A few of the researchers seem to think that once a borderline, always a borderline. That you can't cure it - you can only control it. That a lot of people are destined to live their lives in and out of institutions, that there isn't much hope.
Rachel Reiland
#10. You need to let go of everything you can't control. Anything that's already happened, anything you're afraid might or might not happen - you can't control any of that. You can only control how you react to it. And how you're reacting right now,
Christy Beam
#11. I am young, and, therefor, I know my words only carry a certain weight in the world, but I do know enough to realize you cannot control the actions of others. You can only control what you do with yourself afterward.
Renee Ahdieh
#12. You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#13. You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.
Karen Marie Moning
#14. Sugar, you can't control what people think or what they do. You can only control how you react to it. Bottom line is you need to decide who it is you're living this life for. You or them?
Tracy Brogan
#15. You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#16. I'm sorry he hurt you, but hurting yourself isn't going to change that. You can't control what people do or how they treat you. You can only control how you react to it.
Jay McLean
#17. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. 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
#19. I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.
Martin Sorrell
#20. Love ... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
David Seabury
#21. You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.
Donnie Wahlberg
#22. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
Mitch Albom
#23. A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
Jodi Picoult
#24. I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.
Shailene Woodley
#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. Self-control is a big deal in human performance. Getting better depends upon it. You cannot get better if it's not you who has to get better. You are the performer, period. You are the only thing you can control.
Henry Cloud
#28. If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.
Robert Forster
#29. The Only Way You Can Control Everything Is If You Fuck It All Up
Jamie Varon
#30. 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
#31. Galina: You want to control the world and everyone in it, but you can't. Let whatever this is - and it's likely nothing - play out ...
Anya: So we do nothing?
Galina: Sometimes that's the only thing to do.
Gabrielle Zevin
#32. We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
Michael Bloomberg
#33. When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.
Neil T. Anderson
#34. Only you can control your future.
Dr. Seuss
#35. Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves...
Assegid Habtewold
#36. 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
#37. I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.
Cecelia Ahern
#38. 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
#39. The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.
Karen Marie Moning
#40. You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself ... worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.
Marian Wright Edelman
#42. After all, you can only really control what you can control, and there's way more that you can't.
Matthew Sullivan
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
Brian Griese
#46. If someone has copyright over some piece of your stuff, you can sell it without permission from the copyright holder because the copyright holder can only control the 'first-sale.' The Supreme Court has recognized this doctrine since 1908.
Marvin Ammori
#47. Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.
Mark McCumber
#48. If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#49. You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.
Susan Mallery
#50. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself.
Sarah Dessen
#51. You are the only person with the power to control your thoughts and attitudes. No one can touch you in here," I say, pointing to my head. "You don't have to change who you are because of what has happened to you.
Gemma Liviero
#52. The only way to know how prayer works is to have complete knowledge and control of the past, present, and future. In other words, you can figure out how prayer works if you are God.
Paul E. Miller
#53. Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.
Sadie Calvano
#54. There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.
Mark Cuban
#55. 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
#56. You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.
Kekla Magoon
#57. 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
#58. The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
Tom Hanks
#59. Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
Orson Scott Card
#60. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
L. Ron Hubbard
#61. 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
#62. If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.
Kevin Keck
#63. Abstention, self-control, self-inflicted pain: these are forms of power - about the only kind you can have when you're a fourteen-year-old girl, by the way.
Meg Howrey
#64. The only person who should have control over your life is God. You're not super woman. Sometimes you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can save anybody else.
Norma Jarrett
#65. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Wayne W. Dyer
#66. I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
Crystal Reed
#67. 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
#68. IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can't imagine the places you'll end up. But most people don't do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.
Lisa Unger
#69. Just be where you are. Right now. Be in this moment only. That's all that really counts ... One breath at a time. It's all we can control ...
Anne Eliot
#70. There are always people making decisions you can't control. But you decide what you're willing to do. What you can live with. At the end of the day, that's the only thing you can control.
Jo Graham
#72. Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.
Mary Matalin
#73. You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.
Jennie Finch
#74. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
Eboo Patel
#75. Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything ... and not doing it only because you can.
Joan D. Vinge
#76. You can change only what people know, not what they do.
Scott Adams
#77. Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.
Ida Tarbell
#78. An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
Ice-T
#79. You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.
Pushpa Rana
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. You can't control who your family is. I know about that. You can only pick good friends and maybe that's a better family.
Ava Richardson
#83. You're competing against other guys because ultimately there's only one starter, and all of us want to be that guy at some point. That's the way I approach it. Control what I can control and just be the best I can be each day.
Scott Tolzien
#84. Make sure that you're nurturing your process. It's the only thing you can truly control, and it's the thing you'll always have regardless of where you end up.
Todd Henry
#85. But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
Paulo Coelho
#86. Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.
Susan Meissner
#87. 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
#88. But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.
Neil Jordan
#89. You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.
Brian Tracy
#90. The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself.
Melody Beattie
#91. Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.
Dudley Moore
#92. I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
Elizabeth Olsen
#93. Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
Ian Ziering
#94. Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don't let it control you. Don't let it sow doubts within you. When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.
Sabaa Tahir
#95. 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
#96. Remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.
Patrick M. Regan
#97. Only when you learn to hear a thought and see a thought can you control a thought.
Toni Sorenson
#98. That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.
Debbie Allen
#99. In a perfect world, you can finish out your career where you start ... It's one of those things you only have so much control over. You have to see how everything plays out and let the system work its course.
Cullen Jenkins
#100. You can weave your life so long
only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.
Patricia A. McKillip
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