John Milton Quotes

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

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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.'

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

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.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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.

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.

My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you're mad don't do something wrong because you're mad.

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

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