Emotion Control Quotes

#1. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.

Roy Huff

#2. If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control.

Bobbie Kinkead

#3. A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

Monroe Trout

#4. The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

John Ferling

#5. You have got to control your fear, get in control of your emotions.

Joe Teti

#6. The easiest emotion to lose control of is anger.

K. Huber

#7. One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.

Buck Brannaman

#8. If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

John C. Maxwell

#9. Hope could be a devastating emotion if you allowed it to control you.
But it was a risk that I was willing to take.

Nicole Sobon

#10. By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.

Jude Bijou

#11. We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reason.

Thomas Lickona

#12. No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

Elinor Glyn

#13. There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

Nicole Krauss

#14. Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

Nouman Ali Khan

#15. You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Maurice Greene

#16. That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.

Holly Smale

#17. You have the ability to choose your thoughts,
to control your emotions,
and to determine your actions.
Thus you decide your fate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Some primal force roared inside him, his possessive streak taking charge. He cupped the back of her head, her hair falling over the back of his hand like silk, and tightened his grip. The moment she softened against him, he took control.

Leah Braemel

#19. Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

Keanu Reeves

#20. You don't need to control emotion," he said. "Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.

Dan Millman

#21. So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

Dalai Lama

#22. When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

Marshall Sylver

#23. Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

Mike Tyson

#25. Emotions are virtually always responses to thoughts. That's great news, because while it's impossible to control an emotion once a thought has triggered it, we can change our thoughts deliberately. We do this not by contradicting them, but by questioning them. EXPLANATION:

Martha N. Beck

#26. Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.

Elliot Kay

#27. I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others' emotions and inability to experience their own.

Graeme Simsion

#28. Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.

Abraham Ruiz

#29. I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

K.d. Lang

#30. No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

Peter Kreeft

#31. You can't control your emotion,
but you can control your action

Hlovate

#32. You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#33. Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

Frederick Lenz

#34. The emotion called love occurs in one's body and it is under the control of another person. The other person can cause it to occur at any time.

Larry Mickelson

#35. It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

John Howard Griffin

#36. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

Wendy Hoffman

#37. I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Dean Koontz

#38. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Larry Elder

#39. You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Debasish Mridha

#40. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

Mitch Albom

#41. I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

Richard Hammond

#42. The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

Spike Jonze

#43. They drive our behaviors and control our moods. If music is emotion expressed in the medium of sound, flavor is emotion expressed in the medium of food.

Mark Schatzker

#44. Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

Chris Benz

#45. Unlike most other facial signs of emotion, the smile is subject to learning and conscious control. In the U.S., Japan, and many other societies, children are taught to smile on purpose, e.g., in a courteous greeting, whether or not they actually feel happy.

David B. Givens

#46. I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Baruch Spinoza

#47. This is who I am.
A fighter.
A guardian.
Stronger than the Stormers.
Stronger than Vane.
Beyond all emotion.
I don't give in to fear or pity or love. I'm the one in control.

Shannon Messenger

#48. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Algernon H. Blackwood

#49. You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Megan Chance

#50. A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

Dennis Prager

#51. Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.

John Moulder Wilson

#52. Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Ellen Hopkins

#53. Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you,

Edgar Martinez

#54. Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Daniel Kahneman

#55. A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

Frederick Lenz

#56. Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

Tony Robbins

#57. Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#58. If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

Warren Buffett

#59. I often thought grief was like madness - the lack of control, the overwhelming waves of emotion with unexpected triggers, breathlessness, night sweats, nightmares, and the feeling of utter aloneness, like that of standing on a ledge in a violent wind.

Erika Robuck

#60. One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

Robert Kiyosaki

#61. I keep telling you, when you can't control the action, control the emotion.

Lisa Renee Jones

#62. The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

George Edward Woodberry

#63. Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

Daniel Pearce

#64. Any smidgen of emotion revealed would crack the careful mask of control and leave the person in pieces.

Jodi Picoult

#65. Telling the willow not to weep only makes it weep more.

Marty Rubin

#66. It really doesn't matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.

Joleon Lescott