Top 100 You Cannot Control Quotes
#1. Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.
Lawrence Samuels
#2. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#3. It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
Lemony Snicket
#4. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
Penelope Leach
#5. Idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Eula Biss
#6. 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
#7. You cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
Lang Leav
#8. One thing you cannot control is nature.
Diana Ross
#9. Awaken yourself by stopping your preoccupation with what you think you know, and instead rest comfortably in the not knowing. Embrace possibility and potential. Do not fear the unknown or that which you cannot control.
Alfred James
#10. If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine
#12. Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.
Jeffrey Fry
#13. We need to simplify life. Do you think grass thinks about who trod on it yesterday? No... It just continues to grow. And so should you. You cannot control who treads on you, but you do control your own growth. Don't ever let others inhibit you!
Tony Curl
#14. You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Johnny Hunt
#15. You cannot control the results, only your actions.
Allan Lokos
#16. Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
then you must learn to control you ...
the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.
Jim Rohn
#17. When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
Robert Barry
#18. 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
#19. If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
Warren Buffett
#20. If you are lucky, God will lead you to a situation you cannot control, you cannot fix, or you cannot even understand. At that point true spirituality begins. Up to that point is all just preparation."1
Morris Dirks
#21. The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble - the representation of your choice. That's all that you can control. But not the ripples - those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.
Michele Bardsley
#22. Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.
S.A. Tawks
#23. You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
Jeffrey Fry
#24. As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.
Catherine Hardwicke
#25. So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#26. You cannot control what you love
you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
Graham Greene
#27. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy
Rick Riordan
#28. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky
#29. Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#30. You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.
Nancy D. Butler
#31. Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness ... Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through ...
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#32. 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
#33. Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
Ariana Godoy
#34. To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
James A. Baldwin
#35. You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.
Rafael Benitez
#36. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
#37. Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.
Jon Spaihts
#38. You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
Kiersten White
#39. You don't win a game by focusing on things you cannot control. You win it by focusing on those things that you can.
Melissa McPhail
#40. I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall ... For a control freak, it's hard.
Naomi Campbell
#41. You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
Mark Hyman
#42. Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.
John Patrick Hickey
#43. You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to define you and keep you down, or would you like them to fuel you to be the very best version of you that you can be.
L.K. Elliott
#44. Horror movies in a sense are about the things that you cannot control, cannot define and the things that you are afraid of, and that is what the boogey man is. The boogey man doesn't have a backstory, he is just the thing you fear and I think it is important to celebrate that aspect of horror.
Larry Fessenden
#45. 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
#46. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.
J.C. Reed
#47. 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
#48. You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
Robert Ringer
#49. 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
#50. Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.
Mark Simpson
#53. You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature.
Debasish Mridha
#54. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so
Gavin De Becker
#55. 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
#56. You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.
Thomas Metzinger
#57. A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.
A.G. Riddle
#58. 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
#59. Never worry about the negative in others, for you cannot change what you don't control, conquer your own demons and be happy.
A.M. Sawyer
#60. I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.
Jojo Moyes
#61. Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic."
You both sound like my mother," I said.
Shut up!" they both said in union.
Rick Riordan
#62. I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who comes in and says, 'Hi,' to everyone and goes up and makes friends.
Catherine Tate
#63. Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
Jose Mourinho
#64. If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.
Orison Swett Marden
#65. A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
Plato
#66. We cannot accept this sort of money from a stranger.'
'Maybe it's not a stranger,' Susan said.
'Then that's even worse!' Elizabeth retorted. 'My God, can you imagine? Some horrid person treating us like puppets, pulling our strings, thinking he can control our destiny?
Julia Quinn
#67. Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley
#68. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas A Kempis
#69. Be the change you wish to see in the world," said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve it. He also said, "In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.
Russell Brand
#70. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.
Liz Hemingway
#71. If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
John C. Maxwell
#72. Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
Walter Wriston
#73. Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun.
John Harricharan
#74. When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
Gwen Moore
#75. Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#76. You are limited, my friend, in what you can and cannot control, as are we all. If you are to become healthy, you must acknowledge the ineluctability of your brother's course. Acknowledge your limitations in directing it, Dominick. And that will free you. That will help to make you well.
Wally Lamb
#77. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.
Khaled Hosseini
#78. You Cannot Always Control External Events, But You Can Control Your Personal Peaks And Valleys By What You Believe And What You Do.
Spencer Johnson
#79. No matter what anyone "does to you" along your path to either personal or professional happiness, that person cannot interfere with your destiny. Only you are in control of that, within the master plan created with God.
Kathleen McGowan
#80. There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will
that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.
Barbara Coloroso
#81. 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
#82. I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
John Travolta
#83. The human mind resents control. The ordinary human hypnotist cannot hypnotize a person against his will for that reason. I can, because I'm not a hypnotist, and, believe me, Pritcher, the resentment that you cannot show and do not even know you possess is something I wouldn't want to face." Pritcher
Isaac Asimov
#84. You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#85. You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne W. Dyer
#86. Control what you can, acknowledge what you cannot.
Jim Stovall
#87. 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
#88. Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself
Zooey Deschanel
#89. If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
A.W. Tozer
#90. If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#91. Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.
Susan Neiman
#92. Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
Jesse Ventura
#93. You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we 'say', it is 'egoism'. The whole world is in order [in control].
Dada Bhagwan
#94. No. I cannot let him control me.
You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.
Marie Lu
#95. Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
Margaret Atwood
#96. I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
Cameron Van Der Burgh
#97. Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died ... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control?
Lionel Suggs
#98. You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
Napoleon Hill
#99. You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both. If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.
Mark Batterson
#100. Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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