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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

10.

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.

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Berry, John

14.

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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

17.

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

Stone, W. Clement

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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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 control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gibson, Mel

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Brown, Les

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

40.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

48.

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

Faldo, Nick

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He is great enough that is his own master.