W. Clement Stone Quotes

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

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

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.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

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

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

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

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can't do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

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

Write down your fears. Write down your thoughts. Write down the feelings you want to have. Just release it, don't ignore it. It's a lot easier said than done, but once you start practicing some of those things, you'll realize that you have a lot more control over your thoughts, your feelings.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

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 have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.