Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.

Simms, Nancy

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

18.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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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 want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Berry, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Riley, Pat

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Penn, William

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

Brown, Les

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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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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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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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.