2,640 Quotes About Control

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Whether my death changes everything is not important," the man said, almost in a whisper, "but whether you allow my death to change you I'd another matter entirely.

Whether my death changes anything is not important," the man said, almost in a whisper, "but whether you allow my death to change you is another matter entirely.

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

We do not always have control over what happens in the outside world, but we can learn to control what happens on the inside.

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

They say that people fall in and out of love, but do they, too, fall in hate? Or fall into indifference? It has hindered men for ages the notion that one falls in love rather than decides to truly love, the notion that his lack of control, on the B-side, can also make him fall in hate or indifference without the responsibility to help it or control it.