Top 1200 Giving Up Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.

Control of space means control of the world.

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

I got caught up in the whole celebrity thing, lost control at times.

We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.

Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.

God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point, that argument cannot be made because it is not true, it is not under control.

In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.

I can only control what I can control, which is taking care of my business here and working hard every single day, and eventually that time will come.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."

Mission Control in Houston receives our e-mails through a satellite and then sends them out to our family and friends. Likewise, any e-mails written to us go through the Mission Control, and then they send them up to us via a satellite.

I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.