Motivational Quotes

Control

To know is to control.

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Control

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Brown, Les

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Brown, Les

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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Horton, Doug

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rapson, Steve

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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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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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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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Simms, Nancy

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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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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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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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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