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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Gibson, Mel

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

Sher, Barbara

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.

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Socrates

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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Horton, Doug

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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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