Dalai Lama Quotes

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

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.

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

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.

As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.

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

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

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

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

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

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

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.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.