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

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

Gibson, Mel

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

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

10.

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Riley, Pat

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Penn, William

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Berry, John

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Rapson, Steve

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Socrates

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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