Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Control

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.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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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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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Rapson, Steve

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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