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

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 want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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.

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

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Riley, Pat

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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

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

Faldo, Nick

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Your real self -- the I am I -- is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Collier, Robert

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

Berry, John

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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