Motivational Quotes

Control

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Control

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

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 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

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Berry, John

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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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Let nothing come between you and the light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

Baker, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

Herbert, George

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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Only my condemnation injures me.

A Course In Miracles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Mccarthy, Michael J.

36.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Hall, Joseph

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

Horton, Doug

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You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Penn, William

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Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.