Emotions
215 quotes: 44 by Keith Craft, 171 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Emotions
- LeaderTip of the day #46: All of your frustration stems from your expectation. The more you mature your expectation (on yourself) the better you manage frustration.
- LeaderTip of the Day #47: Your feelings are not facts. Never allow your feelings to lead you. God never intended for you to follow your heart. Be led by the Spirit.
- Big Thought: The Peace that Jesus gives is not the absence of trouble, but is rather the confidence that He is there with you always, and will somehow work all things together for your good.
- One of the great freedoms of every person is to discover the unconscious reasons behind conscious behaviors.
Other voices on Emotions
- A dull day need not be a depressing day; depression always implies physical or moral weakness, and is therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can struggle against it.
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
- A maxim of Professor James 'never to suffer a single emotion to evaporate without exacting from it some practical service.'
- A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
- A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
- A sign of emotional intelligence is refusing to inflict a bad mood on others.
- All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings.
- An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- Anger and frustration are rarely caused by other people’s actions. They’re caused by how you interpret their actions. To change your reactions, question your explanations. You know what they did, but not why. New interpretations pave the way to new emotions.
- Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
- Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
- Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
- Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man. It effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.
- Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
- Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
- Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.
- Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
- Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
- Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
- Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.AristotleSourced
- At every trifle scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense.
- At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.
- Be wary and keep cool. A cool head is as necessary as a warm heart. In any negotiations, steadiness and coolness are invaluable; while they will often carry you in safety through times of danger and difficulty.
- Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.
- Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
- Beware of the fury of a patient man.
- Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
- Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Do not discharge in haste the arrow which can never return: it is easy to destroy happiness; most difficult to restore it.