Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Control

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

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

Brown, Les

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

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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

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

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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.

30.

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

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Jewish

34.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Berry, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Penn, William

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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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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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

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

Rapson, Steve

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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