Anne Bronte Quotes

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

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.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that's been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.

I was too aggressive. Too angry.

About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

When you reflect on your life, you realize how arguments, pride, and the worry of proving yourself never changed or fixed anything.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.