Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.