Quotes About Control

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?

What you don't deal with rules your life.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit. And the quality of our spirit becomes the filter through which we see life. And as the philosophers say, reality is our perception of it. I believe those words. Our reality is what we believe it to be. What we believe informs our thoughts. Our thoughts inform our actions. Our actions build our lives.

Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country.

This is the most frightening lesson of the Cultural Revolution: Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country. This is as true now as it was then. Thirty