Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.

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.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

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

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.