Dan O'Brien Quotes

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I don't cry easily.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

It is not in my character to be so emotional.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.