John Ruskin Quotes

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

I'm too mature to be angry.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

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

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.