Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

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

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

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.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

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.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

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

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

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

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

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.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

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

A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.

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

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.