Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Control

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Faldo, Nick

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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 one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Penn, William

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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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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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