Quotes About Control

You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Let every man be master of his time.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.