Nell Scovell Quotes

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I never get too over-confident, or too down. I just go with the flow.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that 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.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

No, nothing really upsets me.

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.