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

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

Rapson, Steve

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

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

18.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

19.

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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Berry, John

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

Brown, Les

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

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Faldo, Nick

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Stone, W. Clement

39.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Horton, Doug

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

43.

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

44.

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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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