Bernard Hopkins Quotes

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

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

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.