Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Control

1.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

2.

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

3.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

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.

5.

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

Penn, William

6.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Brown, Les

8.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

9.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

16.

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

Simms, Nancy

17.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

18.

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

19.

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

Socrates

20.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

21.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

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

Rapson, Steve

24.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Eastwood, Clint

29.

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

30.

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

Riley, Pat

31.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

32.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

41.

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

Stone, W. Clement

42.

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

43.

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

Bombeck, Erma

44.

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.

45.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

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