Personal Control Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Privacy matters. Privacy allows us to determine who we are and what we want to be.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

You are to set your own value, communicate that value to the world, and then not settle for less. Sound daunting? That's just because it takes you out of your comfort zone. You have got to stop being an obstacle on your own path to wealth and security and happiness. You must understand that valuing yourself is well within your control.

I don't have a Facebook, I never have. I don't have Twitter, I never have. I think my parents are very protective, so they didn't want us to have any more exposure. But Instagram is a photo that you control. And you can talk to your fans, or talk about the movies you do - slices of your life. It is what you make it.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

I ain't going at nobody else pace.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.