Jimi Manuwa Quotes

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself.

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

I can't let my frustration get the best of me.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

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.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Stop yelling at the movie, you ain’t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

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

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.