Motivational Quotes

Control

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.

Best Quotes about Control

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

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Proverb, Chinese

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brown, Les

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

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

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

10.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

11.

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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

14.

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

Simms, Nancy

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Riley, Pat

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Penn, William

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

Faldo, Nick

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rapson, Steve

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