Motivational Quotes

Control

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

- Plato

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

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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

Berry, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Rapson, Steve

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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

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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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 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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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