Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Riley, Pat

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

Fuller, Thomas

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

11.

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

Bombeck, Erma

12.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

14.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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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 cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Hall, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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

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

Socrates

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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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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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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