Emotional Discipline Quotes

#1. The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

Victor Sperandeo

#2. Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Warren Buffett

#3. To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

Warren Buffett

#4. If you fail to know how to move with people without emotional discipline, you shall surely become the color of their emotions whenever they go beyond the boundaries of their emotions to display the real and true color of their emotions

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

DeWitt Clinton

#6. If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#7. What doesn't kill me can only make me stronger

Kid Ink

#8. Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik Erikson

#9. I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

Jim Butcher

#10. I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

Mary Wigman

#11. The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Walter Benjamin

#12. God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#13. Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

Uta Hagen

#14. It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Winston Churchill

#15. There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Robert Watson-Watt

#16. My uncle said physically disciplining children fell into the same category as hitting an animal, neither has the emotional or intellectual capacity to understand the action on any level other than pain and fear. He said discipline is a concept that can only be understood by adults.

Fabian Black

#17. Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

Alan Lightman

#18. Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.

Jonathan Kellerman

#19. Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.

John Irving

#20. Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

Jack Woodford

#21. One of the things people need to realize about sugar is that it is essentially a drug, something that elicits an emotional and automatic response in the body that is not healthy and can erode your discipline as a healthy eater.

Nick Meyer

#22. It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#23. There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

Armin Hofmann

#24. To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.

Martha Graham

#25. If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#26. Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

George W. Bush

#27. Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

John Mellencamp

#28. Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

Dallas Willard

#29. Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Kelley Armstrong

#30. Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

Gary Chapman

#31. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi