Beyond My Control Quotes

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  Barbara Jordan

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Excuse

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• Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

  Ashleigh Brillante

  Responsibility, Fate, Soul

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• I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Faith, Divine Order, Ebb And Flow

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• For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.

  Og Mandino

  Two, Yesterday, Forever

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• I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

  Will Ferguson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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• It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

  Waris Ahluwalia

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• I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

  Libba Bray

  School, Done, Acid

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

  Amy Grant

  Real, Thrill, Bigs

  FaceBook post by Amy Grant from Dec 30, 2013

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• The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

  Sandra Bullock

  Acting, Pieces, Tiny

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