Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Control

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Simms, Nancy

10.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

11.

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

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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.

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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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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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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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

28.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Allen, James

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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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

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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

40.

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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

42.

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

43.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Brown, Les

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