Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Mccarthy, Michael J.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holliwell, Raymond

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Riley, Pat

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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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 have only one counsel for you -- be master.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Berry, John

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Horton, Doug

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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