Quotes About Control

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Don't let your age control your life... Let your life control your age.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

You keep life on a short leash." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're scared of what you can't control.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.