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

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sher, Barbara

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Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Socrates

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I grip the wheel too tight, I find I lose control.

Rapson, Steve

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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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