Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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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Stone, W. Clement

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Socrates

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

Rapson, Steve

25.

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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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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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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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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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.

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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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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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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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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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.