Quotation Explorer - 'Control'

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it. - Epictetus

Keep your focus on the things you can actually control. Choosing to center on anything else will either stop you in your tracks or significantly slow you down. - Sherene McHenry

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics. - A.E. Samaan

Control your thoughts and everything will be under your control. - Debasish Mridha

Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will. - Oumar Dieng

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken. - Tullian Tchividjian

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. - Steve Jobs

I'm accustomed to toxicity and can’t control myself when I’m near it. - Dominic Riccitello

You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over. - Roger Harrison

if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others—choose your master. - Rick Julian

It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago. - Nic Sheff

There is nothing stronger then our own thoughts, when we that can control life will be more Easier. - Jan Jansen

The SECRET to financial security is not to have more money, but having MORE CONTROL over the money we presently have. - Auliq-Ice

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Anything under God's control is never out of control. - Charles R. Swindoll

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment. - Walter Lippmann

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis

Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto! - Deyth Banger

I have no magic wand to control what other people think or do. I can control how I respond, and this is all that matters. - Debasish Mridha

The more I get to know him, the more I can feel my heart opening without my control. I always wanted a man to look at me as if I were a miracle, but I didn't realise I would oneday see a man just as grande - Nikki Rowe

Control what you can. Influence what you should. Forget the rest. - Todd Stocker

When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love. - Sheila Burke

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway. - Debasish Mridha

You create the action, the chances, the opportunities, the wealth, the happiness, the success, the rhythm, the speed, you control all the outcomes in your life! - Stan The Man SA

Exactly when will you give up?When things will seem out of your hands ?When situations will seem out of your control?Will you try to control them? Or will you let go?Will you give up then? Or will you keep holding on?Don't tell me that I gave up; I didn't.Because I didn't let go; I just let it be. - Sanhita Baruah

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convinces ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it. - William Moyers

Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them. - Andres Heinz, Mark Heyman, John J. McLaughlin

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens. - Agnostic Zetetic

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it. - Donna Lynn Hope

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school. - Libba Bray

To live a happy life. Learn to let go of all that stresses you. You were never in control anyway. - Ane Krstevska

Do not worry over things you can not control. There's always a way. There's always a choice. - The Counselling Paradigm http www.thecounsellingparadigm.sg

The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient. If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth. - Matthew Donnelly

You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two. - Michael Chabon

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. - Robert E. Lee

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. - Molière

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created. - Amit Kalantri

Control your anger, be calm. - Lailah Gifty Akita

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. - Edward Snowden

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way. - Oprah Winfrey

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day. - John Piper

Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life. - Mouloud Benzadi

5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes. - Karen Salmansohn

What we can't control, we call fate. - Marty Rubin

We do not have control over what happens to us. But we have the courage to conquer. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person. - Archie Lee

Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like and if you have babies, you have babies.

There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control. - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

Control your thoughts to define your life. - Debasish Mridha

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.[CNN interview (December 8, 2010)] - Steve Wozniak

Fear is a product of doubt. it is a negative energy. Fear is an opposite of faith. Law is not necessary for people who have freedom. Law is the control switch that produces fear. That Fear produces lawful citizens is a delusion, it only creates fearful citizens . - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands. - Christopher Morris

We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve. - S. Kelley Harrell

A book can not control you when you are the writter. - Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon

Do you actually think that you are in control of this world, think again for G-d has control what he allows is for a reason. - Virginia Garcia

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us. - Emma Thompson

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion. - Bob Proctor

Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway. - Sara Secora

The fantastic 4 I's... I have a vision, I have a will, I own my life and I control my future - Mohammed Sekouty

Fortunately, we are not in control. - Willie Nelson

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Emotions are good as long as you are in control of them. - www.kavikishor.com

Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life. - Tom Swyers

She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought. - Holly Hood

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. - Epictetus

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world. - Gordon Atkinson

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going. - Deborah Day

Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect. - Jenny Lawson

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. - Philip K. Dick

Believe in yourself, refuse to waiver! Once you control your mind, you control your DESTINY here on earth. - Ron Barrow

Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory. - Steve Maraboli

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)] - James A. Michener

It is the unknown that terrifies us in life, the unfamiliar and the unpredictable. People fear what they’re not sure of. What they cannot control. It’s The Old Dark House again. If we don’t know what’s in the dark and quiet place, we fill it with bogeymen and demons. - Dennis O'Donnell

If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers. - Toni Bentley

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

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

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons. - Aisha Mirza

We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about who we are in Christ and that God is in control. - Michael Barbarulo

Step up and take the control back. you're not a video game to be played. - Himani Gupta

He who controls the minds of others is a ‘Gnani’ (the enlightened one). Only when your mind is completely under your control, can other’s mind come under your control. How can the other persons mind come under your control when one has disturbances himself. - Dada Bhagwan

Don't let anyone control how much, and who you give to-people have a way of spending your money - Charmaine J Forde

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath. - Aniruddha Sastikar

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak. - Michelle M. Pillow

Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed. - Auliq Ice

When you consciously decide to be in a good mood every morning, you create an atmosphere of joy and peace. Practice mood control daily... it will then become a habit. Don't put the control of your emotions in the hands of others. - Randa Manning-Johnson

There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices? - Tom Cunningham

What kids are doing are killing themselvesThey feel they have no control of their prisoner's cellAnd if you're one of them then you're one of meAnd you would do almost anything just to feel free...- From the song Fake You Out - Twenty one pilots

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. - Leone Levi

You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me. - Luigi Pirandello

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better. - Sara Sheridan

Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it. - Charlie Herrick

There lies a faith in the absence of control. - Kylie Maughan

When you control their water, you control the people. - Nabil N. Jamal

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. - Vincent McNabb

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life. - A.E. Samaan

Three things to give up to be happier: 1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize. 2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment. 3. Give up the desire to impress and control others. - Debasish Mridha

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature. - C.G. Jung

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich. - Jeffrey D. Sachs

Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world. - Roel van Sleeuwen

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who thinks they have control over you. - Shannon L. Alder

Our minds control us with desires and fears. - Debasish Mridha

Yes, our company is at risk because we cede control to the users, but that's how we do our business. If the community decides to kill the business, maybe it deserves to die. - Jeffrey Kalmikoff

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. - Ralph W. Sockman

Stop worrying about what tomorrow may bring. Focus on what you can control. Stay positive. Enjoy today. Expect good things to come. - Karen Salmansohn

If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer. - Johnny Rich

And I knowThe scariest part is letting goCause love is a ghost you can’t control - Christina Perri

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. - Denis Diderot

The human mind is the most unreliable things in the universe. So control it. - Noormohammad Bhuayan

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. - Tiffany Madison

The biggest problem occurswhen i try to forget you are nights,cuz i ain't got control on my dreams... - Abhishek Kumar Singh

She'll be really impressed if you take control and let her follow your lead. - Auliq Ice

Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control. - Auliq Ice

People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control. - Aysha Taryam

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. - Milton Glaser

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled. - William Blake

More often than not, a statist's argument against Anarchism boils down to an unwillingness to take control and responsibility for their own lives, actions, and communities. The sad truth is that the human animal has been domesticated to the point where it actually fears Liberty. - Dane Whalen

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . . (Character), "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Catherine Weaver

What we believe is a matter of choice provided we have control over our thoughts. It’s no less than living in bliss with each passing moment when you can see your thoughts flowing in apt directions. - Taranpreet Singh

They just want to control the population through fear and manipulation - Anon1467

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. - Pat Paulsen

Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wherever the individual does not mind forfeiting the option, for some sense of control. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Devotion to material possession, control or power; is the sole reason for hate. Devotion to the heart ... the sole reason for love. - Robert Vanleeuwen

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control ofhis mind. - Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference. - Michael Treanor

You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away, and to decide what you want to be, do, or have...and go after it. - B. Dave Walters

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. - Friedrich Nietzsche

There comes a moment in each of our lives when the control that keeps us sane slips through our fingers. Most of us aim to seize it back. The best way to fight chaos is with chaos. - Emily Thorne

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Anthony Robbins

Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life. - Lorri Faye

I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190 - Sonia Sotomayor Goodreads is over capacity. You can never have too many books but Goodreads can some

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it. - Toni Sorenson

It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes our freedom comes in the way we accept things over which we have no control, things which may cause us great pain and even death. - Madeleine L'Engle

Always be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life. - Mouloud Benzadi

We all have a dual nature,some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess - Laney Zukerman

Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.- - RVM

Faith" will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice? - Phil Mitchell

Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man's access to) their kids. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed. - Sharon Nir

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it. - William Glasser

Control and manipulation are not love; the outcome is a life of imprisonment ultimately leading to deep-rooted feelings of resentment. - Ken Poirot

Unlike the rest of nature, our mission in life is not etched in stone. We can choose our destiny, and we do, either by design or default, by taking control of our lives’ or relinquishing it to others. - Glenn A. Maltais

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

We can allow our ego to react and sabotage or we can let our spirit run free in love. We are always in control of our actions. - Karen A. Baquiran

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. - David Sedaris

Your most important want should be the one you can control! - Shannon L. Alder

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy] - Jerry Pournelle

The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject. - Dada Bhagwan

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. - David D. Allee

You need your Anger to fuel youYou need your Rage to control youand you need your Heart to constrain youOnce you have achieved that, you will be the closest thing to an Immortal Invincible being, that has Ever walked upon this earth. - Faruk DML

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will - Jack Welch

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control. - Franz Bardon

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. - Paula Vogel

As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit. - Emmanuel Teney

A life without a plan is a life out of control. - Sunday Adelaja

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer - Otto von Bismarck

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly. - Hugh Macleod

God the Father and the Son don’t wish you to remain blind. It is men that put blindness upon other people for the purpose of control and manipulation. - Sunday Adelaja

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared. - Charles Fishman

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control. - Elizabeth Sims

Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself. - Lionel Suggs

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart

The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because you want to do it, not because of whether or not the outcome will be achieved. - Murad S. Shah

Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or beliefs . - Mamie Thornbrue

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power. - Dave Champion

Don’t try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. - Seneca

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. - J. K. Rowling

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress. - Lionel Suggs

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618 - Christopher Paolini

Control your anger because it is just ONE Letter away from danger. - Auliq Ice

Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.When This Music Touch Our Hear, We call it TRANCE.When This Music Control Our Emotion We call it "THE SENSATION OF TRANCE - Saumya Mohanty

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel. - Vandana Shiva

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. - Paulo Coelho

Being in your head is when you analyze, control and overthink. Run on thoughts, worry, talking but not listening, taking all the workshops and reading all the books, but not experiencing it's message. - Eileen Anglin

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave. - Luigina Sgarro

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. - Clint Eastwood

Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over. - Auliq Ice

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances. - Anthony Liccione

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life. - Ali Vincent

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter. - A.E. Samaan

Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident, and faithful, God is in control. - Toni Sorenson

Don't let the anger control you turning you into someone whom you are not. - http www.thecounsellingparadigm.sg

Inorder to accept any sort of change, you must realize that you do not have control over everything in your life. - Auliq Ice

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. - Arthur C. Clarke

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling. - Colin Meloy

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others. - David W. Earle

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media] - Germany Kent

The control of information makes history. - duzB August 2010

Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience. - Auliq Ice

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~ - Emmanuel

If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions.

You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive... to build something beautiful. - Steve Maraboli

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me. - Michael Treanor

Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily. - - RVM

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid. - Paulo Coelho

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't. - Auliq Ice

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story - Brandt Legg

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity. - L. Ron Hubbard

You can control one thing and that is your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

Any thought that you don’t control has the power to become toxic. - Toni Sorenson

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives. - Richelle E. Goodrich

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it. - Shannon L. Alder

It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language. - Saif Samir

Attempts to control complex systems … tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst. - Stanley McChrystal

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight! - David G. Jones

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude. - Roy Bennett

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer. - Kurt Vonnegut

Unless you are ready to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, you'll forever be in the control of things you can't give up. - Samuel Gyekye Mensah

I encourage you, to take control to take back your power. Make the time and effort to invest in yourself. Self-care and healing. Taking time for stillness and contemplation. Reflect on your own behaviour. Decide what kind of person you want to be and then take the steps to be that person. - Akiroq Brost

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope. - Alain de Botton

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you. - Sara Zarr

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it. - Nikki Rowe

We can never control change; we can only control our response to change. - Debasish Mridha

You freaking bit me," I said, my voice hoarse. "You're lucky I don't call animal control. - Jayde Scott

Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks...Compete! If you aren't willing to work for you goals, don't expect others to! Believe in yourself. - Anonymous

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. - Margaret Sanger

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. - Donna Tartt

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life. - Yukito Kishiro

Don’t BELIEVE everything you read and see on the socialmedia! Don’t let LIKES & RT brainwash your mind, take control over your time and take you away from your life, family & responsibilities! - Lily Amis

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control. - Marty Rubin

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. - Shannon L. Alder

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. - William James

Choice- Everyone has them, so take control! - Mordakhi

The only thing you have 100% control over is you. - Hyrum Smith

Firing of Energy does it faster than pumping, but the latter is under better control, and much more resource efficient - Priyavrat Thareja

You do not necessarily lose concentration; you only allow something else to take control of a greater portion of your attentiveness and attention at any given moment of time. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If it is irrational and hypocritical to hold a minor to the same standard of behaviour control as a mature adult, it is equally unjust to hold a traumatised and neurologically impaired adult to the same standard as one not so afflicted - Marin Teicher

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. - Barbara Hall

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics. - A.E. Samaan

Social values, friends, communities and families control our thoughts. - Balroop Singh

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - ― Albert Ellis

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis

To control yourself, control your fear first. - Debasish Mridha

Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes. - Anthony Liccione

The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself. - Chanda Kaushik

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways. - Greil Marcus

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn’t that apply to all of us? - Pulkit Patel

Yoga not only allows you to learn to control your breathing, but it ultimately enhances your abilities to harmonize your thoughts and enhances your inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha

We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose. - Ellen J. Barrier

In life, you have two choices: Do you control your life… or not? Are you the driver or the passenger? Do you make stuff happen, or let stuff to happen? - Justin Young

The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you’ll be in all areas of life. - Roy T. Bennett

What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs—economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does. - S. Brian Willson

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine. - A.E. Samaan

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. - Ann Brashares

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. - Jack Kerouac

Don't let emotions trap you in a cage, you be in control of them, not the other way around. - deadsilent666

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn’t mean that you should always let it control your emotions. - Mircea Popister

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH…SOCRATES’ LAST WORDS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO - Dean Chavooshian

We underestimate the power of our own mind – for both good and bad. If we can learn to control our mindset and our responses to the adverse things in our lives, we can absolutely control our own destiny. - Rob R Morris

By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it. - Debasish Mridha

Too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control. - Jim Ferrell

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.

Stop wasting your time over what you can’t control, make the most of what you can control and miracles are bound to happen. - Ane Krstevska

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. - Nicole Kidman

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. - A. J. Kitt

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. - Leo Buscaglia

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. - Allyson Felix

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise. - Jay Woodman

If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control. - Charles R. Swindoll

Life & Death are beyond our control. We can’t control where, how, or when we are born & we can’t control where, how, or when we may die. Then why Worry about it. - RVM

The key to sticking with any diet is learning how to control hunger and manage cravings. - Josh Bezoni

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers - William S. Burroughs

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you. - T Jay Taylor

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx

To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech. - Radhe Maa

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

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

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. - Spider Robinson

religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism. - John Stuart Mill

Your mind is the doorkeeper of your soul and heart the king. It's unwise to let the doorkeeper control the king. - Steven Chopade

Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now. - Auliq Ice

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? - Karl Pilkington

We are fools, not by our religious beliefs,however by what we are lead to believe by those who control what information we receive - Kloby

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. - Julia Cameron

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you. - Scott Dye

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes. - Gary Hopkins

I have a vision,I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future - Mohammed Sekouty

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. - Kahlil Gibran

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - G. M. Trevelyan

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. - Balroop Singh

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly free state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. - Tiffany Madison

We've all got the power to kill in our hands, but most of us are afraid to use it. Those who aren't, control life itself. - Richard Ramirez

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear. - Grigoris Deoudis

Begin your day by saying "I AM". You will begin to believe that you have control of your life, freedom of expressing yourself with ease, and the clarity to recognize your own truth. - Steven Cuoco

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin - Mayu Shinjo

Control Master Theory suggests that our psychological problems come about in much the same way: our decision to make ourselves unhappy because one or both of our parents were unhappy is just as altruistic as our friend's decision to run through flames to save his daughter. - Lewis Engel

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny. - Glenn Beck

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force. - Natalya Vorobyova

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

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react. - Seth Adam Smith

Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life. - Evita Ochel

Finn?Yeah?Remember how you said the ball was in my court?He pressed his forehead to hers for a beat, like he was working on control. She knew she should be as well but she didn’t want him to leave, didn’t want to be alone in this. Don’t go, she whispered softly. - Jill Shalvis

In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control. - Miriam Defensor Santiago

She is a free spirit: an inquisitive voyager. She knows no boundaries and resists control. She sails fearlessly with 'time' as her soul grows beauty. She is graceful, yet she owns her story. - Amelia Dashwood, The Writer of the Woods

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. - Alain de Botton

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. - Lauryn Hill

Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire. - Edward Ugel

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your life. - Will Smith

Conquer your mind; your life will be in your control. - Sanjeet Veen

Don't make people control your life, People only care about themselves. Live your life with happy and ignore Sick people. - Al-Hanouf Halawi

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield) - Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world. - Debasish Mridha

Never allow your fears to take control of you. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. - Daniel H. Pink

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again. I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light. - Gwendoline Riley

Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent. - Joseph J. Haeggquist

When life's adversities overwhelm you, look beyond your circumstances with an absolute trust that God is in control. - Mamur Mustapha

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go. - James Arthur Ray

Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t. - Alan Cohen

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the Pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning.

We can’t control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we can’t control. - Avis J. Williams

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. - Roy Bennett

Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking. - Jasz Gill

When you believe you have lost your power and control nothing will ever seem easy or simple. - Shannon L. Alder

We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart. - Warren W. Wiersbe

The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swamps of the unconscious. - Stephen King

To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath. - Stephen Richards

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend. - Friedrich Hayek

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now. - Auliq Ice

… we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence … - Margaret Wheatley

We may not be able to control life’s circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them. - Elaine Moran

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

I will not let triggers, flashbacks,nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself. - Julie Jewels Smoot

Unhappiness means lack of control. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. - Carroll Bryant

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. - James Madison

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse - William E. Dodd

BE HAPPY YOU CAN HAVE THE RICE,MANY CAN'T AFFORD THE PRICE.I CAN CONTROL MY ANGER,WHAT WILL I DO IN HUNGER ? - merlin8thomas

MUSIC. It’s in my heart! It’s in my mind! It’s in my soul! Music has a way of taking control of my entire being, and I’m perfectly okay with that! Music is Life! Music is LOVE. Music makes life extra special! Music is a GIFT to the world! - Stephanie Lahart

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control - Katie Kacvinsky

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices. - Jennifer Salaiz

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. - Bertrand Russell

To take control of your life ... just let go! - Stephen Richards

A man's final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way. - Angela Khristin Brown

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control. - Oprah Winfrey

This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen! - Pablo

When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.

Be control of your mind. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Let today be the day you control your emotions. Don't let them get the best of you. Whatever you are feeling right now should not be overwhelming. Don't allow others to dampen your spirit. You are entitled to enjoy peace. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. - Hark Herald Sarmiento

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of. - Milton Friedman

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self. - Bryant McGill

We may not control a situation, but we can control our responses and actions. - Debasish Mridha

A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over - Ryan Leonard

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business. - Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle? - Joe Bageant

Just be, right now, here; & breathe. Stop questioning every little thing, stop analysing how it should be and let go of the control, you hold so tightly onto; and beging to trust the magic of yourself. - Nikki Rowe

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives - Vernon Howard

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

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance. - Thomas Szasz

I hope I can never trust my wife. If I trust her it means I know her. If I know her it means I understand her. If I understand her it means I can control her, and if I can control her it would make her boring and uninteresting… Dear god I hope I can never trust my wife… - Ben Mitchell

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children. - Kelly Bartlett

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects. - Jonathan Haidt

The power to shape your destiny lies in your strength to take control of your thoughts, abilities and actions. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength. - Nikki Rowe

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936) - Francis William Aston

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics. - David W. Earle

God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man. - Sunday Adelaja

Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it. - Tadahiko Nagao

Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth. - Shannon L. Alder

Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh. - Sunday Adelaja

The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future. - Jim George

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Feedback control is certainly not controlled feedback. - Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

God is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child. - Jim George

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. - Mickey Rivers

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. - R. D. Hitchcock

A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever. - Iain M. Banks

In your hearts ,you will always find water and flames ,when the flames get out of control ,you need to give them some water ,it's like you have to find the perfect by balancing the fire and water in your hearts for a honest ,truthful life. - Amira -Fadil

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores. - Douglas Tallamy

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself. - Saurabh Sharma

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on. - Richie Norton

Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt. - Unarine Ramaru

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. - Epictetus

If you control the children, you control the future. - Michel Houellebecq

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. - Terence McKenna

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. - Chuck Palahniuk

How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create. - Roy Bennett

You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language. - Felix Clay

Sometimes, I cannot control myself. Please do not blame me, its not me. Maybe it is someone who knows better about me. - Santosh Kalwar

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating trough human conciousness control events.

The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds. - Karuna Cayton

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. - Bill Gaede

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control. - C.S. Woolley

Change your attitude and you change your life. You cannot control what happens to you in your life, but you can always control how you respond to it. The way you choose to respond is a reflection of your attitude. By changing your attitude, you also change your perspective and change your life. - Roy Bennett

I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken. - M.F. Moonzajer

Match your talent with integrity, or your talent might take you places where you lose control, and fall from grace. - Kevin J. Donaldson

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control. - Margo Demello

You say you've a life, but i see it as movie being directed by someone else, being edited often here and there. life is when you've the remote control of it, and its been controled by the person you love. - Yaqub khan

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. - Margo Kaufman

You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future. - Steven Redhead

If you can't keep control your emotions,you can't keep save your relationships.., - waqas7

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself. - Caroline Myss

Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind. - Lailah Gifty Akita

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control. - Jazz Feylynn

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. - Clive Barker

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

If you feel like you're under control you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it’s strength)!!! - Dada Bhagwan

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself. - Goldie Hawn

Be the master of your own thoughts to control your future. - Debasish Mridha

Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free. - Julieanne O'Conner

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

Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. - The Vision

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens. - Elizabeth George

When you control the ball, you control the score.

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. - Tiffany Madison

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

If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control. - Bobbie Kinkead

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness. - Jennifer Elisabeth

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. - Michel de Montaigne

We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans. - Toni Sorenson

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways. - Jeff Ryan

Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything. - Compton Gage

...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground – a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required. - Silvia Hartmann

You control whether you are happy. It's all your narrative and you can change it if you choose to." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee

There is not one single thing you cannot do if you are able to see fear for what it truly is. Life is full of choices, and one of those choices involves fear. You can either let it control you, or you can learn to control it. - Jellis Vaes

We have no control of the laws of life. We only have to flow with the rhythm of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful. - Lily Allen

I can’t control the waves of the ocean, but I can learn how to navigate my ship. - Debasish Mridha

It wouldn't be mind control, if you will know you've been under mind control. - VicDo

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

Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin. - Andrena Sawyer

I think insecurity underscores most human behavior. Because we're insecure, we want to be able to explain and control everything in order to protect ourselves. - Marty Rubin

Rather than trying to control Anger,try deferring it,looking for an alternative way of handling...i bet its more easy as well as more effective. - ketan r shah

The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be. - Kamand Kojouri

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. - Martin Luther King Jr.

You see, most people gain weight because they give into cravings. But when you easily (and without feeling like you're depriving yourself) gain control, the extra weight comes off. - Josh Bezoni

Besides your mouth, your mind is a powerful tool given to you by God. Use your mind; control your mind, don't let it control you! Your imaginative power is your creative ability. - Paul Silway

I rely on my personality for birth control.

Do not seek to control other souls. Seek to know your sacred soul - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. - Hyrum Smith

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control. - Robert Fanney

Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each. - Mark W. Boyer

I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's a control freak thing. I wouldn't let you understand.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. - Democritus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. - Baruch Spinoza

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment. - Darrin Patrick

That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay. - Marcus Aurelius

In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles. - Steven Magee

Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another. - Emily Thorne

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

You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You have the whole world to choose from. If you have something to say, say it. Live your life as you want to live it, not how others perceive your life to be lived. Take control. Today. - Michelle Geaney

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. - Bruce Coville

The ability to control the devil in you, defines the strength of your conscience! - Gunbir Singh

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. - Henry Bessemer

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture. - Chuck Klosterman

If you choose to not deal with an issue,then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. - Susan Del Gatto

Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it. - James C. Dobson

Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds;1. Power to control emotions,2. Power to make right decisions,3. Power to stand against depression,4. Power to excel in innovations. - Israelmore Ayivor

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them. - Elizabeth George

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. - Cato the Elder

Many people in this world want you to follow them blindly, no questions asked , they wanna control your fate, your heart, soul & thoughts, I tell you...Follow your heart , listen to what it has to say . - sami abouzid

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. - Bryant McGill

By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred. - Radhe Maa

Your mind is everything. If you can control it, you can be the King of the universe. - Sharfaraz Ahmed

If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen - Stewart Stafford

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control. - Irene Dunlap

Keeping the momentum going is not easy but God will make it ease if we put all our trust in Him; He is in control of everything and He has the keys; He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. - Nur Sakinah Thomas

If you feel like your life is under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better. - J'son M. Lee

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey. - Dawn Gluskin

Behind every successful person there is an out of control imagination. - Auliq Ice

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe

I would control your life, every step you walk, and every word you say; there is no way you can run from an injured wolf. - M.F. Moonzajer

Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. - Carla H. Krueger

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books. - Anamika Mishra

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus

Instead of a feeling, think of love as an action. The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can’t control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling. - Russ Harris

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu

Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can’t control. - Dugald Black

It felt good to be the one holding the blade; the role reversal gave him a much desired feeling of control. - S.R. Ford

So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those? - Eveth N Colley

You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect. - Michael W. Fox

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. - Clint Eastwood

If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future. - Germany Kent

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is. - Fred Rogers

Crime isn't that complicated. People steal because taking something gives them something. If they're not in it for the money, they're in it for the control. The act of taking, breaking the rules, makes them feel powerful. They're in it for the sheer defiance. - V.E. Schwab

Control.... is not what we need.What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles. - Patricia Pearson

You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control. - John Mark Green

We can’t always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events. - Kenneth H. Blanchard

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control. - James Emlund

Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it. - Sigmund Freud

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. - Ricky Skaggs

You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature. - Debasish Mridha

You walked into my heart, Without my permission And the more I've tried to hold on to the control, They deeper you have sunk. Your a love I can't grasp hold of, maybe that's why it scares that absolute shit out of me. - Nikki Rowe

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to give focus and fuel to a bad situation that will take you nowhere and give you nothing, but ignorance and pain. - Shannon L. Alder

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind. - -Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. - Kim J. Vicente

You can’t control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself. - Debasish Mridha

Notice the difference between being in control and needing control. - Marilyn Suttle

Great men know how to control two things; their women and money. - Habeeb Akande

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

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Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold. - Jennifer S. Davis

But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us. - Pico Iyer

and after everything had been said and done I realized, you cannot keep people no matter how far you go to do so. You don't have any control over what they choose to do. Even if they choose to leave you on your own.Even if they choose to make you hate love - Simran.M.Anthony

Patience is the blue vitriol to control the fungal emotions of life - Munia Khan

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. - Don Miguel Ruiz

If you don’t take control of yourcareer development, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will! - Derric Yuh Ndim

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things. - E.L. James

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics. - Orrin Woodward

The mind is more powerful than ever, and you have more control over it than you ever think. - David Lionel Lloyd

I can still choose to be a person who is kind and full of love, a person who extends compassion to her fellow humans and even if I feel like our country is regressing a little, even if I'm embarrassed of our leader I still have control over the kind of person I am. - Ashley Mardell

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do... - John Geddes

Focus on the systematic process and the things you have control. - Balenti Peco Ramos

Life is full of hurts, and it always will be. As long as you live, people are going to offend you, hurt you, and disappoint you.But you needn't let their actions control your response and out-look on life. You can learn to rise above life's disappointments. - Prince Akwarandu

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. - Margaret Sanger

The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude. - Mandy Hale

Fool your heart and take over control if you don't want to be hurt. - Aashi uppal

We cannot control how others treat us but we can control the way we react to them. - Sarah Tse

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation. - Ken Poirot

When you love yourself too much, sometimes it becomes a problem, because it gets out of control. if you don't control yourself, you become yourself closest enemy ! - Beta Metani'Marashi

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

You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion. - Debasish Mridha

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves. - Chris Page

I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute thair seed. - Marlon Brando

Woman wants control, man self-control . - Immanuel Kant

I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn’t control the happenings, it’s like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes... - JaszCab.

We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control. - Russell Eric Dobda

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. - Thomas Jefferson

Try to control your anger before it burns your life. - Debasish Mridha

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. - Paulo Coelho

I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart - che acebido

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please. - R.A.Delmonico

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. - Albert Einstein

The world, control phones, don't you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It's th right question? - Deyth Banger

If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands. - Chrostoph Morris

You have control over yourself. You are the master of your destiny. You're the captain of your ship and YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... - Ane Krstevska

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

We all possess a hidden power to control our destiny. Attitude and determination are the keys we must use to unleash it. - Lorri Faye

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from oneend to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terroristattacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out ofthe Pledge of Allegiance? - Jay Leno

You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive… to build something beautiful. - Steve Maraboli

The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control - Venancio Cadle Gomani Jr.

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Being in love with a right person can make you look more confident and in control. - Auliq Ice

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it. - H. James Harrington

It is not those events outside of our control which we should allow to define us. Instead, the definition of who we choose to be is dictated by how we deal with these outside events within ourselves. - Tony C. Skye

To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real? - Jay Woodman

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control. - Clifford Cohen

You are a compilation of choices. And you can control that. - Brian Bennudriti

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours. - Tami B Harriott

A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness. - Brian Michael Good

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. - Charles Darwin

The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men. - Debasish Mridha

Meeting you was fate..Becoming your friend was a choice..But falling in love with you I had no control over. - Teresa Conroy

Always be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life. - Mouloud Benzadi

Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation. - Sunday Adelaja

Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation. - Geoffrey Wood

In every area of politics, the goal is control. - R. A. Delmonico

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people. - Winston S. Churchill

Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable. - John Mankiewicz

Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life. - Boyd K. Packer

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

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is unpredictable.We can not tell will happen in a minute.We have no control of tomorrow and it's details. Live a careful life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don’t, someone else will. - Toni Sorenson

In an argument, you have to learn to control your emotions. The other person is the revolver, but you are the trigger. The revolver won't hurt you as long as the trigger isn't pulled. - Donald Trump

Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. - Michael Mewshaw