Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Simms, Nancy

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

20.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Rapson, Steve

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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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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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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.

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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Penn, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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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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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