Motivational Quotes

Control

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

Best Quotes about Control

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Brown, Les

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

Riley, Pat

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

Faldo, Nick

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Berry, John

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horton, Doug

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Simms, Nancy

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Rapson, Steve

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

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

Penn, William

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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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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