Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Control

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

11.

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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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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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Gibson, Mel

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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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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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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

40.

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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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Berry, John

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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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