Quotes related to Proverbs 16:32
Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.
— Myles Munroe
I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.
— Nelson Mandela
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
— Os Guinness
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
— Oscar Wilde
We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.
— Patrick Morley
But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
— Genesis 29:8
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
— Genesis 39:14
Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.
— Genesis 41:10
Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”
— Genesis 43:31