Control Quotes

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

The only thing you can control is your behaviour with others.

I’m an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven’t had any time to rationalize it. But it’s nothing that I’m going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.

I love directing, I really do. The whole concept of being in control of a presentation, particularly a movie or a show where you’re dealing with actors and crew.

I feel like when you say ‘activist,’ you have to have so much clarity, and I don’t always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I’m trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.

It’s important to drive your own ship, and it’s your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.