I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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.

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.

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

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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

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

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

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

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

He who angers you conquers you.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

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

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

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

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

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

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

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

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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