Motivational Quotes

Control

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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Best Quotes about Control

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

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

Berry, John

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Horton, Doug

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.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Rapson, Steve

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Socrates

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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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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To know is to control.