Plutarch Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.

Never anger made good guard for itself.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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

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

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

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 you get angry, your options narrow.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

Sometimes when I get frustrated and ticked off, there's a little more fire there. It can also get you in trouble if you're not careful, but I think within reason it can help you.

I do have a lot of fire in me and could use some lessons on how to handle things more calmly.

This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he's being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.

When I was playing, I had that passion and fire, cussing everybody out, but I had the opportunity to change that being out on the floor. But now that I'm coach, I can still have my passion, but I just have to tone it down.

I really don't get angry.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

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