Motivational Quotes

Control

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Control

1.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

4.

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.

5.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

6.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

7.

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

8.

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

Faldo, Nick

9.

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

Stone, W. Clement

10.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

11.

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.

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Simms, Nancy

25.

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

Eastwood, Clint

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Sher, Barbara

29.

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Brown, Les

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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.

34.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

35.

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

36.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

37.

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

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Rapson, Steve

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

44.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Gibson, Mel

45.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

49.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

50.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George