Overcoming Emotions Quotes

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I wanna move on but my feelings too strong.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Much of your success in life is determined by how you choose to act in spite of how you feel.

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.

I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone he wrote to, visited, dined with, slept with, I could fight her. We would stand on common ground. I should not be afraid. Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. One day the woman would grow old or tired or different, and Maxim would not love her anymore. But Rebecca would never grow old. Rebecca would always be the same. And she and I could not fight. She was to strong for me.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.