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Hands the first step to the solution. Changing our habits, changing our methods of influence and changing the way we see our no control problems are all within our Circle of Influence.
- Stephen Covey
It is inspiring to realize that in choosing our response to circumstance, we powerfully affect our circumstance. When we change one part of the chemical formula, we change the nature of the results. • •
- Stephen Covey
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. OBJECTIVE INTROSPECTION Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives onto other people.
- Stephen Covey
It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.
- Stephen Covey
Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.
- Kevin Hart
Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
- Joseph Addison
And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
- Joseph Addison
Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.
- Joseph Alleine
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network..." "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. 'The own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?
- Ernest Cline