Emotions
215 quotes: 44 by Keith Craft, 171 from other voices.
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- When you lose your temper, you lose your power.
- When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.
- When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.
- Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
- You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
- You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
- You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
- You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act.
- You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- You come to realize that life's daily irritations are just things that happen. They only become irritations if you supply the irritability.
- You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.
- You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
- Your feelings don't matter. The only thing that matters is what you DO.
- Your heart is not a houseplant: if you never set it out in the sun and rain, it will wither.
- Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.