Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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.

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

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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Horton, Doug

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berry, John

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rapson, Steve

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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Riley, Pat

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

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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