Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Johnson, Jeremy P.

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

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

Berry, John

10.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

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

Socrates

18.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

20.

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

Faldo, Nick

21.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Penn, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

25.

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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stone, W. Clement

30.

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

Brown, Les

33.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

34.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

35.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Sher, Barbara

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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.