Master Your Emotions Quotes

“I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.”

“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands.”

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”

“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”

“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”

“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”

“You can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

“Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy.”

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.”

“Reacting in anger or annoyance will give you more problems than it solves.”

“Emotion leads to action. Master your emotions and you master your actions.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”

“My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.”

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.”

“Intolerance is a form of ignorance that must be mastered.”

“The best fighter is never angry.”

“If things go wrong, don't go with them.”

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

“When you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”

“Anybody can become angry, that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“Worry, envy, jealousy, hatred, doubt, and fear are all states of mind that are fatal to action.”

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

“If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“He who angers you conquers you.”

“Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life, it comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.”

“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.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”

“Choose not to be harmed, and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed, and you haven't been.”

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”

“Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you may never owe.”

“Ask yourself this question: Will this matter one year from now?”

“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.”

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

“Feelings are much like waves; we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.”

“My secret is 'I don't mind what happens.'”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.”

“How people treat you is their Karma. How you react is yours.”

“If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.”

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it. You have to participate relentlessly.”

“My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

“You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

“Anger is a prelude to courage.”

“If you can't accept losing, you can't win.”

“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”

“Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can't see.”

“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”

“Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”

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

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

“Calmness is the cradle of power.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“The strong man is not the one who can overpower others; the strong man is the one who controls himself when angry.”

“Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”

“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”

“You aren't nervous about the performance, you're nervous about the results.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“You can't control the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

“Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.”

“Rule Number 6: Don't take yourself so seriously.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

“You are not responsible for your first thought, but you are responsible for your second thought.”

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.”

“Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.”

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.”

“Patience is passion tamed.”

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”