Abraham Lincoln Quotes

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

I've never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they're like, 'Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,' but I'm like, 'I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,' so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

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 try to behave myself, and I succeed.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.