Our Control Quotes

66 quotes by 60 authors

Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate… — Jeremy Rifkin
The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands. — Robert Kennedy
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is… — John C. Maxwell
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with… — Daniel Pinchbeck
It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control. — Dick Van Dyke
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such… — Bonnie Friedman
Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it. — Joel Surnow
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky typesâ€¦ Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that… — Edward Snowden
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. — Epictetus
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. — Matthieu Ricard
I like to think that weâ€™re not defined by what happens to usâ€¦because so many times theyâ€™re beyond our control. I like to think that… — Elizabeth Smart
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where… — Nancy Gibbs
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other… — Epictetus
All power is from within and therefore under our control — Robert Collier
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor… — Leonard Mlodinow
Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are… — Geneen Roth
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are… — Wayne Muller
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only… — Epictetus
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They… — Epictetus

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