Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Control

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

Riley, Pat

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

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.

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

Faldo, Nick

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Penn, William

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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