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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Brown, Les

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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.

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

Riley, Pat

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

10.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

11.

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

Rapson, Steve

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Sher, Barbara

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Penn, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Faldo, Nick

27.

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

Socrates

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

30.

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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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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Berry, John

35.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

43.

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

Horton, Doug

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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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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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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James