Angela Ahrendts Quotes

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I struggle with control.

Freedom is good when the person can use it appropriately. Otherwise it is a disaster.

What I say is the only thing I can control.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

You can only control so much.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

I have control issues. For sure, no question.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

You can only control what you can control.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself.

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

I just try to control what I can control.