Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Control

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

Rapson, Steve

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Socrates

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Simms, Nancy

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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

28.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 don't program yourself, life will program you!

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Penn, William

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

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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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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.