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Quotes About Control

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
~ Unknown
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
~ Unknown
Future is unpredictable, yet remains up to us. We're choosing which path we're going to take.
~ Unknown
When a person attempts to control someone else's life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own.
~ Unknown
For a simple and happy life. We don't have to control our thoughts, we just have to stop letting them control our life.
~ Unknown
Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.
~ Jeffrey Fry
The bad news is time flies like an arrow and the good news is the bow is in your hands.
~ Unknown
We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
~ Bible
The power of the universe is something no one can control. Be grateful for all the universe brings to you. If the universe brings you unhappiness, reflect and find new happiness. If the universe brings you happiness, cherish it with all your heart
~ Unknown
Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily.
~ Unknown
We can make our plans,but the Lord determines our steps. -Proverbs 16:9
~ Bible
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
~ Unknown
Don't let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experiences.
~ Unknown
The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.
~ Unknown
I wish life had traffic lights, it would tell us when to go for it, when to be careful, and when to just stop.
~ Unknown
Our thoughts have incredible, life changing power. Make sure your own worst enemy is not living between your own two ears.
~ Unknown
When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.
~ Unknown
It takes power to stand up and to choose what experiences we allow to take root or to even come into our lives.
~ Unknown
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.
~ Unknown
In the stories, the gods have the power to delay the moon's course if they wish, to spin a single night the length of many.
~ Madeline Miller
All these gods, all these mortals who aided him. Men talk of his wiles. His true talent was in how well he could take from others.
~ Madeline Miller
There was always a leader. He was not the largest, and he need not be the captain, but he was the one they looked to for instruction in their cruelty. He had a cold eye and a coiling tension. Like a snake, the poets might say, but I knew snakes better by then.
~ Madeline Miller
You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite P.85
~ Madeline Miller