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

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Eastwood, Clint

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

Socrates

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

21.

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

22.

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

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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.

24.

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

25.

To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

26.

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

Sher, Barbara

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

30.

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

31.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

32.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it

Allen, James

33.

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

34.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

37.

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

38.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Penn, William

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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

41.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Rapson, Steve

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph