Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Gibson, Mel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Robbins, Anthony

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

Socrates

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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I have only one counsel for you -- be master.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Merton, Thomas

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Faldo, Nick

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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, Jewish

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Horton, Doug

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Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Mandino, Og

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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Whitman, Walt

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Berry, John

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If you don't program yourself, life will program you!

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Riley, Pat