You Can't Control What Happens Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.

Chris Stapleton

#3. Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

Hiromi

#4. Maybe you just do the best you can, 'cause you can't control what happens in the end.

Rob Buyea

#5. 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

#6. Blame is the dumbest thing a person can do. It always puts the control in someone else's hands. I'm always responsible for what happens to me and therefore I can change it.

Sarah Noffke

#7. What happens outside of us doesn't count. That's something we don't have control over. It's what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that's important.

James Lee Burke

#8. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

A.E. Samaan

#9. No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

Michael Jackson

#10. When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. Jason you can't control the universe and everything that happens in it, but you can control your reaction to it. You can control you, and how you choose to live each day.

Han Nolan

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

Norah Jones

#16. I want my life to radiate what happens when God has a person's heart at His full control, when every event or circumstance is simply another avenue to know Him better and show forth His glory.

Priscilla Shirer

#17. By being in harmony with your environment you are able to control more precisely what happens.

Steven Redhead

#18. Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Daniel Kahneman

#19. Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich

#20. When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

Srikumar Rao

#21. I think that as much as any leader is marketed we have to learn that unless we inject ourselves specifically and link our revolution to the economic struggle of our people and address those specific issues then we're never really going to have control of what happens.

Immortal Technique

#22. Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Payne Stewart

#23. Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Ralph Fletcher

#24. Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Rebecca Stead

#25. 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

#26. No matter what happens, God is in control, and your home is with Him. Nobody can ever take that away from you.

Grant Carroll

#27. You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

Gregg Araki

#28. Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there.

Pegi Young

#29. 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

#30. No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

Alexis Wright

#31. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

Maya Angelou

#32. I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

David Cone

#33. We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

Bryant McGill

#34. We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

Viktor E. Frankl

#35. Stuff happens. We get lost. We try to control what will happen. We give up. We do things that don't make sense. We search for things in the wrongest of ways. We lose our way, but sometimes, if we're really, really strong, we manage to find our way back.

Jessica Sorensen

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

Ashley Rickards

#37. There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.

Adam Lambert

#38. Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Pauline Kael

#39. There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Jan Schakowsky

#40. 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

#41. I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)

Mary E. Pearson

#42. And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He's in control.

Esther Earl

#43. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

Nikki Rowe

#44. You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.

Sarah Morgan

#45. I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Susan Sarandon

#46. I don't think you have any control over who you are-it just happens. Sometimes in the morning I wake up and don't know who I am. I have to get out of bed and open the closet door, and then I think, oh yes, I'm the girl in the red dress.

MacDonald Harris

#47. You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.

Ladyhawke

#48. We can't control what happens around us but we can control what happens inside us. Walk in positive energy...live in peace.

Timothy Pina

#49. There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.

Norman Rush

#50. 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

#51. The dripping ... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

Keith Haring

#52. None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it.

Epictetus

#53. I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

Nick Vujicic

#54. And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

Arnold Bennett

#55. WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.
WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.
HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU.

Marvin J. Ashton

#56. It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#57. Words that you use determine and control what happens in life.

Steven Redhead

#58. One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Joe Haldeman

#59. You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Amy Lee

#60. I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.

Clinton Portis

#61. Not everything that happens to us is within our control, my friend. Sometimes life gives us a swift kick in the ass, and we have to do the best we can with what we're given.

Felice Stevens

#62. What a remarkable reminder that none of us can actually control what happens. We can only control the grace with which we react.

Amy Robach

#63. Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.

John Rzeznik

#64. Wishes are just wishes. Destiny is just destiny. And neither really has control over your life. Shit happens, shapes our lives, but doesn't have to shape who we are.

Jessica Sorensen

#65. What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

Greg Maddux

#66. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.

Dan Millman

#67. The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Randy Couture

#68. 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

#69. I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

David Gregory

#70. It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.

Hal Elrod

#71. You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

Israelmore Ayivor

#72. Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Elizabeth George

#73. Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Amy Winehouse

#74. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Elon Musk

#75. No matter what happens in your life always try your best to stay in the moment. You can never control another persons emotions but you can always control yours.

Timothy Pina

#76. It is not about what happens to you - it is about how you perceive it. How you react to it. That is what you have control over. You can crumple up and die. Or you can be strong. That is what separates girls from women.

Morgan Rice

#77. I like to think that we're not defined by what happens to us ... because so many times they're beyond our control. I like to think that we're defined by our choices and our decisions.

Elizabeth Smart

#78. I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

Sean Lennon