“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”  Kahlil Gibran

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are…it is our choices.”  Dumbledore

“Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.”  Marsha Petrie Sue

“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”  Will Rogers

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.”  Bob Moawad

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”  Elbert Hubbard

“Who I am today is a reflection of the decisions I made yesterday, so if I want to be different tomorrow, I have to make up my mind to do things differently today.”  Joyce Meyer.

“Language is the expression of thought.  Every time you speak, your mind is on parade.”  Unknown

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserves your love & affection.”  Buddha

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”  Bob Marley

“Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.”  Chinese Proverb

“What’s done can’t be undone.”  William Shakespeare

“There’s only us, There’s only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss”  Mimi, Rent

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.”  Denis Waitley

“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”  Buddha

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”  Joan Didion

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”  Buddha

“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”  Earl Nightingale

“Pain accompanies change. One way or another it’s going to hurt to make adjustments in our lives. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we can choose the pain we endure. We have two options: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”  John Maxwell

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”  Samuel Johnson

“Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”  Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.”  Helen Keller

“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”   Stevie Wonder

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”  St. Augustine

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”  William James

“Some pursue happiness, others create it.”  Unknown

“When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.”  
Jake Steinfeld

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”  Dale Carnegie

“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”  John Adams

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”  Mark Twain

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”  Sally Field

“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”  Brian Tracy

“Sometimes it’s the smallest decision that can change your life forever.”  Keri Russell

“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.”  Nelson DeMille

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live now.
”  Joan Baez

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”  Unknown

“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.”  Korean Proverb

“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”  Denis Waitley

“Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.”  Chinese Proverb

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”  Albert Einstein

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”  George Jean Nathan

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”  Tennessee Williams

“Anger is short-lived madness.”  Horace

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”  Mildred Barthel

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”  Floria Whittemore

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”  Samuel Johnson

“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”  Robert G. Ingersoll

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”  Edward de Bono

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”  Buddha

“Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”
  Ann Landers

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”  Bob Marley

“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”
  Baltasar Gracian

“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.”  Gandhi

“Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take.  You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.”  Author Unknown

“Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.”  Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”  Sonya Friedman

“Anyone who angers you, conquers you.”  Elizabeth Kenney

“Anger is one letter short of danger. ”  Author Unknown

“The power of the mind is your power.  Use it.  Don’t let it use you.”  Terri Guillemets

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”  Bruce Lee

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”  William Feather

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”  Unknown

“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.”  William Howard Stein

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

“Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing.  Find your own path, and stay on it.”  Paul Vixie

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”  James Openheim

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?”  Sydney J. Harris

“When life gives you lemons, please, just don’t squirt them in other people’s eyes.”  J. Andrew Helt

“Anger is one letter short of danger.”  Author Unknown

“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.”  John Allston

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”  George Jean Nathan

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”  Mike Murdock

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.  You are what you repeatedly do.”  Shaquille O’Neal

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”  Lewis Carroll

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.” Abraham J. Heschel

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” 
 W. Somerset Maugham

“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.”  Louis L’Amour

“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.”  Korean Proverb

“Responsibility looks forward, blame looks backward.”  Brian Tracy

“The choices you have made and will make in you life are 100 percent your responsibility.”  Unknown

“In the long run, we shape our lives and shape ourselves. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”  Winston Churchill

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”  Abraham Lincoln

“As long as you have the power to choose, you have the power to change things.”  Dr. Phil

“When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.”  Dr. Phil

“From whom much is given, much is expected. I promise you that you have been given much. So guess what? From you, much is expected.”  Dr. Phil

“You can’t change your history. But you can change your responses to those external factors. You can change what you do in response to that history.”  Dr. Phil

“No matter how fast you run or how much you try to hide you cannot not choose. Choosing not to act is, in itself, a choice.”  Dr. Phil

“What if you discovered that you had settled for what life has served up instead of what you really wanted and needed.”  Dr. Phil

“The company you keep will determine the trouble you meet.”  Unknown

“Tempers what gets most of us in to trouble, pride is what keeps us there.”  Unknown

“Your temper is like a fire. It gets very destructive when it gets out of control.”  Unknown

“Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it.”  Unknown

“Man is never in worse company that when he flies in to a rage and is beside himself.”  Unknown

“The trouble with the guy who talks too fast is that he often says something he hasn’t thought of yet.”  Unknown

“The hardest victory is victory over self.”  Aristotle

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”  Epictetus

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it.”  Emerson

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”  Lady Dorothy Nevill

“Remember that someone, somewhere, is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.”  Edward Macauley

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”  Henry Ward Beecher

“The only thing in the world you can change is yourself, and that makes all the difference in the world.”  Cher

“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.”  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.”  David Schwartz

“Winners make goals; others make excuses.”  Unknown

“My life seems like one long obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle.”  Jack Paar

“Listen to the whispers and you won’t have to hear the screams.”  Cherokee Saying

“The harder I work the more I live.”  George Bernard Shaw

“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”  Benjamin Franklin

“It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.”  Sir Edmund Hillary

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh

“For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace, and for the un-peaceful how can there be happiness?”  Bhagavad Gita

“… when you unleash your aggression or hostility on another person, it inspires aggression and hostility in return. The result then is conflict, … when you act in anger, you lose self control.”  Jim Lau

“Control you emotion or it will control you.”  Chinese Adage

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Remember that we all climb the ladder of success one step at a time.”  Kemmons Wilson

“Smooth seas do not require skillful sailors.”  African Proverb

“Failure to prepare, is preparing to fail.”  Unknown

“The foundation of excellence lies in self control.”  H.L. Baugher

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.”  Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Success is no mystery, it’s simply a matter of discipline. Discipline means we don’t let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!”  Jim Rohn

“In all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”  Confucius

“He who possesses patience possesses himself.”  Raymond Lull

“The first and best victory is to conquer self.”  Plato

“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.”  Roy L. Smith

“Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.”  Julie Andrews

“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him – and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.”  Jean Paul Getty

“Swallowing angry words is much better than having to eat them.”  Unknown

“Men are like fish.  Neither would get in to trouble in they kept their mouths shut.”  Unknown

“The only preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.”  Unknown

“Tempers what gets most of us in to trouble, pride is what keeps us there.”  Unknown

“The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.”  Unknown

“Your temper is like a fire. It gets very destructive when it gets out of control.”  Unknown

“Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it.”  Unknown

“Man is never in worse company that when he flies in to a rage and is beside himself.”  Unknown

“The trouble with the guy who talks too fast is that he often says something he hasn’t thought of yet.”  Unknown