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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“A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.”
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
“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.”
“If it’s not going to matter in 5 years, do not spend more than 5 minutes being upset by it.”
“Manage your triggers, or they’ll eat you alive.”
“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”
“You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.”
“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help.”
“It isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier.”
“Anger is just fear clothed.”
“Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it.”
“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.”
“Don’t ever let the competition make you angry. You must have clarity of mind to make your own decisions—not the ones that your competitors want you to make.”
“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind”
“Mental toughness is an attitude centered on doing the best you can in the present, while believing you can do even better in the future.”
“Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.”
“Never be ashamed of honest tears.”
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.”
“The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.”
“If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.”
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
“No one but you get to decide how you react, and your reactions are the bricks by which you build the life that you want.”
“There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.”
“If you don’t like your outcomes, change your responses.”
“Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.”
“If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1 million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.”
“Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.”
“Put a ’stop-loss’ order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth - and refuse to give it any more.”
“Don’t fuss about trifles. Don’t permit little things - the mere termites of life - to ruin your happiness.”
“Inspiration is never at variance with information; in fact the more information one has, the greater will be the inspiration.”
“I can’t control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.”
“Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.”
“If you want to avoid making the same mistakes twice make more decisions based on your past memories and fewer decisions based on your current emotions.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”
“Let your desires be ruled by reason.”
“As a general rule, the more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals.”
“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it - just as we have learned to live with storms.”
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
“Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.”
“Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you’ll gradually get used to it.”
“It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.”
“As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.”
