Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Control

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.

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.

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

Faldo, Nick

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

Penn, William

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Brown, Les

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Simms, Nancy

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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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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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 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 one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Horton, Doug

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

Rapson, Steve

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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