Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Control

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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.

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gibson, Mel

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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

Berry, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

22.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Horton, Doug

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Faldo, Nick

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Socrates

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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Sher, Barbara

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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