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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Socrates

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

Riley, Pat

11.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Allen, James

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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Berry, John

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon