Motivational Quotes

Control

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Control

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Hill, Napoleon

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Berry, John

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

Gibson, Mel

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

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

Socrates

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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 always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, Les

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

Penn, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Horton, Doug

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

Faldo, Nick

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

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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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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.