Quotes related to Proverbs 16:32
When you attend the games, do not get emotionally invested in the rivalry. Wish only that the best team or athlete wins. Avoid the extremes of elation at a win and devastation at a loss.
— Epictetus
You do not seem to realize that the mind is subject only to itself. It alone can control it, which shows the force and justice of God's edict: the strong shall always prevail over the weak.
— Epictetus
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
— Ayn Rand
I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
— J. J. Watt
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.
— Robert Brault
Anne always said that Esme Dalley had an iron will under all her sweetness and the doctor had a great deal of respect for the intuition of his wife.
— LM Montgomery
The self-control of passion, the reshaping of his image of the world, the elimination of the sense of merit, the change of language, the effect of his profession on the structure of his life, all hint at the depth of this crisis.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
— Abraham Lincoln
Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.
— Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
— Abraham Lincoln