Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Ziglar, Zig

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Berry, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Socrates

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Penn, William

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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