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

1.

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

Rapson, Steve

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

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

Robbins, Anthony

4.

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

Simms, Nancy

5.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

6.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

7.

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

Hill, Napoleon

8.

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

Hill, Napoleon

9.

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.

10.

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.

11.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

14.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

15.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

16.

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Jewish

19.

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.

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Gibson, Mel

22.

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

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

25.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

26.

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

Penn, William

27.

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

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

34.

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

36.

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

37.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

38.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Eastwood, Clint

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

43.

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

Bombeck, Erma

44.

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

45.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

46.

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.

47.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Sher, Barbara

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Stone, W. Clement