Joyce Meyer Quotes

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Of course our feelings matter. But emotional decisions are usually not the best ones. On the other hand, your emotions can affect your decisions whether you like it or not because the effects can occur on the unconscious level.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

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

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

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

In business, my head needs to rule over my heart.

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

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

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

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

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

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.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.