Deepak Chopra Quotes

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

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.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

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

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

What I say is the only thing I can control.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.