Although we’d like to believe it’s our intellect that really drives us, in most cases our emotions — the sensations that we link to our thoughts — are what truly drive us.

when we love something, emotion often drives our actions.

Humans are driven by emotion. Much of our so-called logic is merely the rationalization of choices that make us feel good.

Sheyel had always maintained that few actions are driven by reason. People act out of emotion, perception, prejudice. They will believe what they’ve always believed, filtering out all evidence to the contrary. Until they go too far and run onto the rocks of reality.

Ultimately, we are moved to action only by emotion. That's because action is emotion.

To really care about others, we have to understand them - what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recognizing the role emotions play and being willing to discuss them makes us better managers, partners, and peers.

Choices, efforts, intentions, and reasoning influence our behavior — but they are themselves part of a chain of causes that precede conscious awareness and over which we exert no ultimate control.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.

The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.

Motivation theory is not synonymous with behavior theory. The motivations are only one class of determinants of behavior. While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

People generally have more control over their actions than their feelings.

But we can influence our feelings by taking action.

Take one small step. Move the body first and the mind will follow.