Motivational Quotes

Control

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.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Penn, William

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

Horton, Doug