Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Brown, Les

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

Socrates

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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 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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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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 are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.