Definition of Control

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Control

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;

the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons.

Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

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Control Quotations

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer

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

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.
Tony 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.
Tony Robbins

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Tony Robbins

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi

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

Control Translations

control in Afrikaans is regeer
control in Danish is regere
control in Dutch is bewind, heerschappij, bestuur
control in Finnish is hallita
control in German is Steuerung, kontrollieren, Bedienungselement
control in Italian is dominare, vigilare, controllo
control in Portuguese is reger, controle
control in Spanish is control, gobernar

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