Motivational Quotes

Control

To know is to control.

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about 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

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Simms, Nancy

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 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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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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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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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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 don't program yourself, life will program you!

Brown, Les

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Penn, William

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

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

Socrates

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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 temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

43.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Faldo, Nick