Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Control

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Allen, James

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Socrates

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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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

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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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