Inner Control Quotes

No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

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

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

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

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

I only can control what I can control.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.