John Chrysostom Quotes

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.

Players need to control their emotions as much as possible.

I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.