Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Gibson, Mel

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Faldo, Nick

You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berry, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

33.

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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Penn, William

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Riley, Pat

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David