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.

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

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

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

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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

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.

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.

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

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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

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

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

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.

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

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

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 don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

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

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

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.

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

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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

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