One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
SolomonRead
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
Interpretation
What this quote means
A wise person is patient and chooses to forgive rather than react with anger.
This quote emphasizes the importance of discretion and self-control in maintaining one's composure. Solomon suggests that true strength lies in the ability to remain calm and overlook offenses, viewing patience and forgiveness as qualities of glory in a person.
Themes
AngerForgivenessPatienceDiscretionSelf-Control
In practice
Example use cases
During a team meeting, when tensions rise, you might say this quote to encourage calmness.
More from Solomon
All quotes βKnowledge is of more value than gold
SolomonRead
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]
SolomonRead
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
SolomonRead
The desire, which is accomplished, is sweet to the soul.
SolomonRead
The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.
SolomonRead
Similar quotes
It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.
Michael CrichtonRead
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
Swami VivekanandaRead
There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.
Malcolm MuggeridgeRead
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
Sam HarrisRead
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
C. S. LewisRead