Quotes about Taking Control

“You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.” ~ Irene C. Kassorla

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” ~ Helen Keller

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” ~ Helen Keller

“When you let anger get the best of you, it usually brings out the worse in you.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

Be the master of your emotions!

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“Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.” ~ Cus D’Amato

“Every athlete hears two competing voices. One is a negative critic, and the other is a positive coach. Which voice we listen to is a matter of choice.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it’s a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control.” ~ Daniel Pink

“Were born to be players, not pawns.” ~ Daniel Pink

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations, and that all reality has spiritual control.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” ~ Anthony Robbins

Take control of your experiences.

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“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there’s something that is within you, there’s power within you, that’s greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.” ~ Michael Beckwith