Samuel Adams Quotes

No person is important enough to make me angry.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.

I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

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 was never, ever once angry in the ring.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Patience is passion tamed.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Keep your cool, even when those around you can't.

I still have to work on patience.

I don't really get angry any more.

I'm kind of a low-tempered kind of guy, so I ease my way one game at a time.

I'm calm and composed, and I don't expect a lot from anyone.

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

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.