Motivational Quotes

Control

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

- Magnin, Edgar F.

Best Quotes about Control

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

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

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Riley, Pat

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

Penn, William

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Berry, John

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Horton, Doug

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph