Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Johnson, Jeremy P.

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Penn, William

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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

11.

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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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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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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 give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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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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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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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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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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.

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