W. E. B. Griffin Quotes

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 do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Angry people are not always wise.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

I don't focus well angry.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Anger makes people stupid.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.