Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

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.'

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

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

I don't get caught up in the moment.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

Anger is a good motivator.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

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.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

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

I don't ever make moves under pressure.

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