Alex Smith Quotes

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

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

I don't torture myself.

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

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

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 can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

I try not to worry about things that I cannot control.

I just move forward and not worry about the things I can't control.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

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

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.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.