Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Control

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

10.

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

Sher, Barbara

11.

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

18.

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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

20.

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 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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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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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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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

25.

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

26.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

30.

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

Simms, Nancy

31.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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 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

35.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Penn, William

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.