Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.

Popplestone, Charles E.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Simms, Nancy

10.

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

11.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Penn, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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

27.

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Brown, Les

28.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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.

36.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Socrates

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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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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.

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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