Quotes About Control

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.

I always know where the scissors are.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Anger manages everything badly.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.