Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Control

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

Gibson, Mel

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

Socrates

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

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.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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 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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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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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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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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 don't program yourself, life will program you!

Brown, Les

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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.