Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Control

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Yogananda, Paramahansa

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

10.

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

11.

Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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

Stone, W. Clement

18.

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

Faldo, Nick

19.

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

Rapson, Steve

20.

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.

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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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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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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Socrates

41.

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

Berry, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Fuller, Thomas