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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rapson, Steve

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Socrates

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You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Berry, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Penn, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Stone, W. Clement

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

Simms, Nancy

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

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon