#control

You control your own wins and losses. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#losses #own #wins #you #your

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #inspirational

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#beyond #consider #control #families #funny

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#everywhere #get #got #guy #guys

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves. ↗

— Saul Williams

#balance #controls #definition #hip-hop #more

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#technology #age

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#argument #inspirational #self-control #anger

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#courage #destiny #empowerment #responsibility #self-control

Free yourself from fruitlessly worrying about things you can’t control and put your energy towards the things you can. Seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #control #let-go #worrying #change

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage. ↗

— Thucydides

#discipline #self-control #self-respect #courage