Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Berry, John

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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

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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 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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Stone, W. Clement

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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 man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Penn, William

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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

31.

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Brown, Les