You Control Your Own Happiness Quotes

#1. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. The only things we can control are our happiness, our destiny, our impact on others. Rest is up to God.

Viola Shipman

#3. Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Dale Carnegie

#4. Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#5. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

#6. Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).

Tony Hsieh

#7. Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.

Deborah Day

#8. But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

Wesley Schultz

#9. To achieve authentic, sustained happiness, above all else you need to be in charge of your life, to be in control of who you want to be, and be able to make the appropriate changes if you are not.

Michael Booth

#10. You need to control the order and timing of things to be happy. It's important to look at happiness in terms of timing because timing is easier to control than resources.

Scott Adams

#11. we're the only ones in control of our happiness.

Jane Green

#12. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.

Maddy Malhotra

#13. Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#14. First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

Stephen R. Covey

#16. Luxury is ... to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

Andre Leon Talley

#17. Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#18. A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

Brian Michael Good

#19. Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Harvey MacKay

#20. My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

Michelle Obama

#21. 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

#22. Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

Michael J. Fox

#23. 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

#24. There will always be something
That can help louse up your day.
All you can do is control your own response. Try not to lose your
Happiness over anything

Timothy Pina

#25. The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

#26. Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

Claude M. Bristol

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

Wayne W. Dyer

#28. 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

#29. Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.

Steve Maraboli

#30. I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.

Sri Chinmoy

#31. You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Debasish Mridha

#32. To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

Diane Dreher

#33. 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

#34. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz

#36. I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman

#37. There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.

Clifton Anderson

#38. Few things come to shake us up and few things pass to teach us how to let go then many things come and remind us what it's all about. It's life and the only person who will control how you feel about all the guts and glory in its path is you.

Nikki Rowe

#39. 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

#40. For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones

Oliver Burkeman

#41. The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

Daniel Kahneman

#42. The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.

Ernest Holmes

#43. But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom to marry, when to divorce, reduce him to terror as a discipline, or distribute happiness to him, and finally be mentioned in his will.

John Steinbeck

#44. I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#45. Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

Maria Montessori

#46. The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.

Elaina Marie