Take Control

“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.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” ~ B.C. Forbes

“Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” ~ Robert Albert Bloch

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle

“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.” ~ Monica Baldwin

“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

“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