Quotes About Control

Achievement doesn't require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices—accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.

The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base it on training and it's called discipline. But do it because you simply can, that's raw power. The power of will.

It's one of the most prevalent myths of our culture: self-discipline." —Leo Babauta

you have a limited supply of willpower, so decide what matters and reserve your willpower for it.

What we can control is where we're going. If we've been less than healthy, we can commit ourselves, as a spiritual exercise, to deal with the spiritual issues behind the physical problem.

You have the responsibility to shape your life. You are the person who pushes yourself forward or holds yourself back. The power to succeed or fail is yours alone.

Anger. We have to learn to control our emotions or they will control us.

Cus D'Amato, who trained Mike Tyson, said emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down. Many great athletes use anger in a positive way. Anger motivates them. Anger steels their resolve. It is much better to become angry than to become afraid.

When you let anger get the best of you, it brings out the worst in you. The key question is who is in control—you or your emotions? Remember, before you can control your performance you need to be in control of yourself.

Fear lives in the future

A state that claims to be a savior of mankind necessarily becomes the final judge of mankind.

No man resists me: literally no one.

this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

You have to take control of your life, stop being a victim of your past, and start moving on to something new. You have to make a choice. You have to change. Even when the change is scary.

In a relationship I can influence—but not control—the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behavior of another.

You have a choice about how you react when someone pushes your fear button. No one else controls how you think. No one else controls how you react. You alone do that.

The Gospel is the Wrecking Ball that blows up the minor fishing expeditions I plan in the pond of what I think I can control.

Yet history has taught us again and again that a small and rabid group of people can tyrannize a splintered larger group.

You can stand there defeated, or deal with those elements within your control and move on. Which makes more sense?

When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

?loveški rod ni ve? skromen. Nima ?aš?enja. Je aroganten in poln lastne tehnologije. Stalno se zavaja s svojimi iluzijami, da obvladuje svoje stvari, in tako ustvarja kaos in še vedno ho?e videti, da je svet nemogo?e obvladati. Jemljemo od Zemlje in drug drugega. Uni?ujemo gozdove, oceane, in ozra?je. Drug drugega zasužnjujemo, mu?imo pretepamo, ponižujemo in morimo.