Motivational Quotes

Control

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

- Eastwood, Clint

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stone, W. Clement

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

10.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Faldo, Nick

13.

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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

15.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Eastwood, Clint

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Gibson, Mel

20.

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

Sher, Barbara

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

27.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Berry, John

35.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

36.

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

37.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rapson, Steve