Motivational Quotes

Control

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Socrates

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

Rapson, Steve

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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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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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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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Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

Ziglar, Zig

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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Penn, William

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Brown, Les

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

Riley, Pat

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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 always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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.