Motivational Quotes

Control

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.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Rapson, Steve

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Sher, Barbara

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Berry, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Gibson, Mel