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Quotes About Control

She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn't feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.
~ Josephine Angelini, Goddess
Blood Life is not hunger. It's freedom
~ Rosemary A. Johns
She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn't enough. Controlling her didn't douse the inferno blazing inside me.
~ A. Zavarelli, Stutter
The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
~ David W. Earle
Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.
~ Bert McCoy
Kindnessis never weaknessif it has potentialto cause death.So, if you can"kill them with kindness, "the ball is in your court.YOU have the power!
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.
~ Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!
~ Adolf Hitler
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
~ Celine Dion
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
~ Livy
But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.
~ Howard Schultz
Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
~ Paul Krugman
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
~ Emily Dickinson
The man who keeps calm when the other fellow gets angry has infinitely the best of the matter.
~ Napoleon Hill
Either you control your habits or your habits will control you.
~ Napoleon Hill
Millions of people believe themselves 'doomed' to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have no control. They are the creators of their own 'misfortunes' because of this negative belief, which is picked up by the subconscious mind and translated into its physical equivalent.
~ Napoleon Hill
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
~ Napoleon Hill
Concentration is the ability to think as you wish to think, the ability to control your thoughts and direct them to a definite end, and the ability to organize your knowledge into a plan of action
~ Napoleon Hill
The Master of Your Fate.
~ Napoleon Hill
Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT, and that is one of the major points I am trying to emphasize through this entire philosophy-that we rise to high positions or remain at the bottom BECAUSE OF CONDITIONS WE CAN CONTROL IF WE DESIRE TO CONTROL THEM.
~ Napoleon Hill
Habits are formed step-by-step through our every thought and deed. Either you control your habits or your habits will control you. If you are going to be successful, you will force yourself to build only the kind of habits that you are willing to let control you. "We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.
~ Napoleon Hill
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility if you now fail or refuse to demand riches of life, because the acceptance calls for but one thing—incidentally, the only thing you can control—and that is a state of mind. A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.
~ Napoleon Hill
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form. Read, again, instructions for using the subconscious mind, in the chapter on autosuggestion.
~ Napoleon Hill