Plato Quotes

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

It's a huge learning that things aren't always in your control. You can only be responsible for what you're doing.

I just try to do what I can, control what I can, and let the rest handle itself.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

You can only control what you can control.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

When you're type A you always think you can fix anything. Sometimes there's nothing you can do.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that.

I'm not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.

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

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.