Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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

If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

But it's no good letting your emotions get the better of you.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

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

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

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

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

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

People who never get carried away should be.

I struggle with control.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

I control my anger.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.