Quotes About Self-control

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

You don't win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It's a vicious cycle.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

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

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Anger - use it, but don't lose it!

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

The best cure for anger is delay.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.