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 types… 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 we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’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
Who Wrote These Our Control Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 66 Our Control Quotes, led by these top contributors: