Quotes about Control

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.