Motivational Quotes

Control

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

- Eastwood, Clint

Best Quotes about Control

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Robbins, Anthony

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Montapert, Alfred A.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Dyer, Wayne

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Fuller, Thomas

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Lincoln, Abraham

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Chuang Tzu

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The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Your real self -- the I am I -- is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Collier, Robert

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What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Thomas, Paul G.

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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Hill, Napoleon

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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Holliwell, Raymond

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It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Gibson, Mel

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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Chopra, Deepak

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha

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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Young, Vash

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We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Eastwood, Clint

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Crisp, Quentin

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If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Proverb, Jewish

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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Horton, Doug

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It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

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Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

King, Larry

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The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.

Faldo, Nick

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We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Robbins, Anthony

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Lincoln, Abraham

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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Berry, John

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Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions...

Stone, W. Clement

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Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

Ziglar, Zig

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Bentham, John

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.