Quotes About Control

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

Know that it's your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you." —ANTHONY ROBBINS

The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control?

Money is a good servant but a bad master. —SIR FRANCIS BACON

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

as long as we structure our lives in a way where our happiness is dependent upon something we cannot control, then we will experience pain.

A mind out of control will play tricks on you. Directed, it's your greatest friend.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you.

When it comes to the areas of your life that matter most—your family, your faith, your health, your finances—you can't rely on anybody else to tell you what to do. It's great to get coaching from experts in the field, but you can't outsource the final decision. You can't give another person control over your destiny, no matter how sincere or skilled he or she may be.

If you don't make decisions about how you're going to live, then you've already made a decision, haven't you? You're making a decision to be directed by the environment instead of shaping your own destiny.

The next time you're feeling uncertain, remind yourself that you're the creator of your life, not a manager of circumstances.

the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act.

When we create an environment inside our minds that has too many intense and simultaneous demands upon us, of course we'll feel overloaded. But we also have the power to change this by focusing on what we can control and dealing with it a step at a time.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. —AYN RAND

it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success

I soon discovered this book really isn't about money, it is about creating the life you want, and part of that is deciding what role you want money to play in it. We all have money in our lives; what matters is that you master money and it doesn't master you. Then you are free to live life on your own terms.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

The point is: control is often more of an illusion than a reality.

The secret of living an extraordinary life is to take control of the mind, since this alone will determine whether you live in a suffering state or a beautiful state.

You have to decide that you're 100% responsible for your state of mind and for your experience of this life.

real power is the ability to create the results you desire while simultaneously adding value to the lives of others. Ultimate power is the ability to shape and control your own life. It's the ability to define human needs and fulfill them—both your needs and the needs of people you care about. It's the ability to direct your own thought processes, your own behavior, so you take hold of the steering mechanism of your life and determine your own destiny.