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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“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.”
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“Emotion leads to action. Master your emotions and you master your actions.”
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“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
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“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
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“How people treat you is their Karma. How you react is yours.”
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“My secret is ‘I don’t mind what happens.’”
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“If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.”
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“Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”
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“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
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“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.”
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“Feelings are much like waves; we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.”
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“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.”
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“I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.”
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“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.”
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“My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
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“You aren’t nervous about the performance, you’re nervous about the results.”
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“You are not responsible for your first thought, but you are responsible for your second thought.”
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“Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem.”
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“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
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“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.”
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“Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”
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“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.”
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“You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”
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“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.”
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“He who angers you conquers you.”
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“Never reply when you are angry. Never make a promise when you are happy.”
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“Reacting in anger or annoyance will give you more problems than it solves.”
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“Patience is passion tamed.”
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“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
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“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
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“Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.”
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“The best fighter is never angry.”
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“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
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“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”
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“Anger is a prelude to courage.”
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“Intolerance is a form of ignorance that must be mastered.”
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“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
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“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.”
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“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
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“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.”
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“The strong man is not the one who can overpower others; the strong man is the one who controls himself when angry.”
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“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
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“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
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“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
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“Get mad, then get over it.”
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