Quotes about Control
You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions. This is an easy thing to say but much more difficult to do.
— Napoleon Hill
Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!
— Napoleon Hill
We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.
— Napoleon Hill
You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.
— Napoleon Hill
A man is no bigger than the things which he allows to annoy him.
— Napoleon Hill
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
— Napoleon Hill
Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!
— Napoleon Hill
Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!
— Napoleon Hill
You can replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you can replace inaction with action, and you can form any habit you choose. Your thoughts are the only thing in life that you can completely control—if you choose to do so. You can control your thoughts to control your habits.
— Napoleon Hill
You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson