Motivational Quotes

Control

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Control

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Penn, William

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Socrates

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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

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

Rapson, Steve

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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 want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Brown, Les

31.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Simms, Nancy

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Jewish

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Gandhi, Mahatma