Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Gibson, Mel

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

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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Brown, Les

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Penn, William

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Berry, John

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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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

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

Horton, Doug

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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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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Sher, Barbara

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Jewish