Quotes About Control

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

He who despises life is his life's master.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

Life's a Trip... ok. I just want to know who packed for me.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Security is the denial of life

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."