Motivational Quotes

Control

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Horton, Doug

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Brown, Les

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Penn, William

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Socrates

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

Simms, Nancy

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Berry, John

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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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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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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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.