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

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

11.

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

Penn, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Berry, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

41.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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Montapert, Alfred A.

44.

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

Proverb, Jewish

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

49.

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

Riley, Pat