Bob Hope Quotes

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.

Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

I don't really feel any pressure. I can control only what I can control.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

I don't think I get angry.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.