Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Control

1.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

2.

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

Simms, Nancy

3.

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

Brown, Les

4.

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Socrates

8.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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.

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Rapson, Steve

15.

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

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

18.

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

Faldo, Nick

19.

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

20.

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

Penn, William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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.

26.

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

Stone, W. Clement

27.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

28.

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.

29.

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

Sher, Barbara

30.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

31.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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.

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

35.

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

36.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Gibson, Mel

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

44.

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

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

Berry, John

50.

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