Control Quotes

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Baker

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

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

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To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Arbie M. Dale

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Ernest Renan

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words

Eileen Caddy

Self mastery comes through denial of the little things.

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Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Zig Ziglar

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.

Timothy Firnstahl

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.

George Orwell

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Yiddish Proverb