Quotes About Control

People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic.

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.

Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.

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

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

By July, oil prices were beginning to subside.13 But the consequences of the offensive were startling. With its fanatic but well-organized military drive, ISIS had redrawn, at least for a time, the map at the heart of the Middle East. It now controlled a contiguous territory that reached from north-central Syria all the way across Iraq to Mosul—almost the same distance as from London to Edinburgh—with as many as eight million people under its rule.

the consequences of the offensive were startling. With its fanatic but well-organized military drive, ISIS had redrawn, at least for a time, the map at the heart of the Middle East. It now controlled a contiguous territory that reached from north-central Syria all the way across Iraq to Mosul—almost the same distance as from London to Edinburgh—with as many as eight million people under its rule.

It makes you realize how small you are, and no matter what you plan, God has a bigger idea, and you're not the one in charge.

I fear that once you put weapons in men's hands, they don't let go of them easily.

Ellen ran their home precisely the way

he treated her with anger, disrespect, and disdain, to punish her for her success.

You had help. He made you sick, or think you were, so he could control you. What does it say in the Bible, something about you'll get back the years the locust hath eaten? That's true for both of us. We lost a lot, but look what we have now.

Firstly, being a local councillor, he was probably a cunt! A real 'book-waving-starch-underpants-wearing-precedent - quoting-sub-section-paragraph-thee-looking-up' sort of arsehole who lived his life by the numbers and reported his neighbours if they so much as tried to put up a bird-table without planning permission.

I mean that we control the way we remember the past, and that's what matters in the present. We choose what is worthy of our memory. We should probably be grateful that we can't remember everything as God does, because if we did, we would find it impossible to forgive anyone. The limit of human memory encourages humility.

It's so messed up how little control we have over whether we want somebody.