Motivational Quotes

Control

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Control

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Simms, Nancy

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Berry, John

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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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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

27.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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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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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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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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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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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jefferson, Thomas