Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

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'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.

I don't let other people get under my skin.

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

No, nothing really upsets me.

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.

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

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

I control my anger.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

Be it high or low, it doesn't matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

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

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.