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

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

Gibson, Mel

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

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

10.

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.

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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.

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

18.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Jewish

22.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

23.

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

Simms, Nancy

24.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

25.

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

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

28.

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

Riley, Pat

29.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

31.

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

32.

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

Berry, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Faldo, Nick

41.

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

Penn, William

42.

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

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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.

45.

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

Horton, Doug

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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.