Master Your Emotions Quotes
Emotions are excellent servants and terrible masters. The man who rules his reactions thinks clearly under pressure and never lets a hot moment cost him a cold decision. This Mindset path holds history's deepest quotes on emotional control. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Reacting in anger or annoyance will give you more problems than it solves.”
“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.”
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“Worry, envy, jealousy, hatred, doubt, and fear are all states of mind that are fatal to action.”
“The best fighter is never angry.”
“Rule Number 6: Don’t take yourself so seriously.”
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
“Never exaggerate; exaggeration is a branch of lying.”
“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.”
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.”
“Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.”
“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.”
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“Anger is a prelude to courage.”
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
“How people treat you is their Karma. How you react is yours.”
“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.”
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“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.”
“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”
“My secret is ‘I don’t mind what happens.’”
“Calmness is the cradle of power.”
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.”
“Emotion leads to action. Master your emotions and you master your actions.”
“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 world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.”
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.”
“When you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
“I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.”
“You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”
“You are not responsible for your first thought, but you are responsible for your second thought.”
“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.”
“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
“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.”
“My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be.”
“Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.”
“Fear and faith have a lot in common. Both of these emotions require that you believe in something that you can’t see.”
“Intolerance is a form of ignorance that must be mastered.”
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
“Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“Ask yourself this question: Will this matter one year from now?”
“You have a right to your actions, but never to your actions’ fruits.”
“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
“Get mad, then get over it.”
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
“Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”
“Feelings are much like waves; we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.”
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
“Patience is passion tamed.”
“If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.”
“He who angers you conquers you.”
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
“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.”
“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
“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.”
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
“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.”
“The strong man is not the one who can overpower others; the strong man is the one who controls himself when angry.”
“Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you may never owe.”
“You aren’t nervous about the performance, you’re nervous about the results.”
“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.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”
“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.”
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
“Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.”
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.”
“You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”
“Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”
