Richard Paul Evans Quotes

You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

We've only got so much energy in our bodies, and if you want to use some of it for hate, if you choose to exert it negatively, I feel for you. I choose to not hate any team. I use whatever is in my tank for good.

Many people talk about the mind-body connection and how what we think can affect our physical self. What I have found, even more than the mental connection, is that the emotions rule the body.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Patience and gentleness is power.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.