Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

1.

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

Riley, Pat

2.

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

3.

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

4.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

5.

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

6.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

8.

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

Sher, Barbara

9.

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Faldo, Nick

14.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

16.

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

Stone, W. Clement

17.

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

Gibson, Mel

18.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Eastwood, Clint

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Berry, John

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Simms, Nancy

32.

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

36.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

37.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

Rapson, Steve

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Penn, William

41.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

42.

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

43.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Brown, Les

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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