Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

I don't really yell at people.

I don't squabble a lot, but everyone has a bad day.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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.'

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

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

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.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

A soft answer turns away anger.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

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.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.