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

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.

Example is leadership.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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

Silence is safer than speech.

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

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

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

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

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

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

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

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

We think too much and feel too little.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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

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.

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

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.

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

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

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

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

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

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

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

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.