Motivational Quotes

Control

To know is to control.

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Control

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

Brown, Les

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Eastwood, Clint

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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

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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Penn, William

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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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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Hill, 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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Riley, Pat

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Berry, John

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.