Motivational Quotes

Control

To know is to control.

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Control

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Brown, Les

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Socrates

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Penn, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Berry, John

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Riley, Pat

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David