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

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

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

Rapson, Steve

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.

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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.

11.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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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To know is to control.

Reed, Scott

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

22.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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

26.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Penn, William

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Berry, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon