Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Horton, Doug

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Brown, Les

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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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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 know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bombeck, Erma

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Penn, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George