Motivational Quotes

Control

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

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Best Quotes about 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.

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

Simms, Nancy

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

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

Riley, Pat

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Berry, John

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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 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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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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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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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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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 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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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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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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les