logo

Quotes About Control

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
~ Jim Rohn
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
~ Gilda Radner
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
~ Regina Brett
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
~ Epictetus
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
~ Nguyen Du
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
~ Seneca the Younger
As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
~ Eckhart Tolle
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
~ Vauvenargues
Power is not happiness.
~ William Godwin
It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.
~ Jennifer Estep
Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.
~ Shawn Achor
Happiness lies in your own hand
~ Madonna Ciccone
Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
~ Carolyn Crane
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
~ Epictetus
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
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
~ Are you happy?
Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
~ Deborah Day
The ego is the ultimate conspirator.
~ Bert McCoy
Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?
~ Scott Stabile
Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.
~ Ron Baratono
Frustration... when our happiness or sadness looses control. The blissful intensity of sensations, the disappointing realisation that dissatisfaction is not enough.
~ Strohberry
Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life
~ Sunday Adelaja