Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Control

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.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Penn, William

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

Allen, James

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Simms, Nancy

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

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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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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

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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Socrates

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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