Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horton, Doug

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

Allen, James

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Eastwood, Clint

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Berry, John

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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Faldo, Nick

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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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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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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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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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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Penn, William

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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