Motivational Quotes

Control

Only my condemnation injures me.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Control

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

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.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Penn, William

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

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

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Berry, John

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Sher, Barbara

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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