Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Control

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

Horton, Doug

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

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Penn, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

10.

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

Berry, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Rapson, Steve

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Faldo, Nick

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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