Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Penn, William

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Berry, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Brown, Les

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Riley, Pat

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa