Top 1200 Discipline And Self Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

Under President Obama we've lost control of things that we used to have control over.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

I was taught earlier on in this league to control what you can control, and enjoy the moment and team that you're with every day.

You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.

At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I don't control my life; my videos control me. I still love it because it's temporary, but I can't do this forever.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

You can't control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

I have control of my recurrent corneal erosion, as opposed to it having control of me.

You can't control injuries, can't control guys getting fired and stuff like that.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

It occurred to me that when a person chooses certain behaviors, they have complete, 100% control over their choices. But once the behavior is chosen, therein lies the extent of the effects of that choice. One has 0% control over what happens to them or to their body as a result of that choice. You can choose how you respond to the consequences, but control is relinquished. Choose carefully!

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.

I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

When I was dancing, I felt in control and happy. I'm a Virgo, so I really like to be in control.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.