How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.

Only you can control your future.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

There is moderation even in excess.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Get mad, then get over it.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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.

Hatred is settled anger.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

We never repent of having eaten too little.