Quotes About Control

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.