Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Johnson, Jeremy P.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Ziglar, Zig

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Socrates