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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bombeck, Erma

12.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Berry, John

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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

Riley, Pat

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Penn, William

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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.