Aspiration Quote by Epictetus

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are…

— Epictetus

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to…

— Robert Foster Bennett

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.…

— Epictetus

There are lots of aspects of our lives we don't have control over, but we do have control over ourselves. That's one thing you…

— Laird Hamilton

What does it mean to feel "in control" of your life? What I mean by control is the ability to make a choice. Personal…

— Polly Young-Eisendrath

“We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures”

— Shad Helmstetter

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…

— Elizabeth Smart

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

— Melody Beattie

We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery…

— Emile Coue

We're not in control [of circumstances], but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means…

— Judith Butler

“Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.”

— Gina Greenlee

“An internal locus of control emerges when we develop a mental habit of transforming chores into meaningful choices, when we assert that we have…

— Charles Duhigg