Quotes About Temper

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. —KAHLIL GIBRAN, POET AND PHILOSOPHER

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Women are temperamental. Thats 90% temper and 10% mental.

Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health." Jefferson

The fiery warrior was at the mercy of his temper and came to his senses only when his opponent lay bleeding on the floor.

Ah, Maura, ye were right," he whispered. "All those years ago ye were right." Alexander leaned forward, and Lochiel waved his hand in a dismissing gesture. "'Tis naught but somethin' Maura said tae me on our weddin' night. She said we Highlanders possess the pride o' lions. Like lions, we nae fear tae temper our actions, only pride tae govern them.

Emotional volatility is not the most reliable leadership tool. When you get angry, you are usually out of control. It's hard to lead people when you've lost control. You may think you have a handle on your temper, that you can use your spontaneous rages to manipulate and motivate people. But it's very hard to predict how people will react to anger.

She'd heard they were gentle, even the bulls. And she was savvy about cattle. She knew how to judge their tempers and stay clear of them when necessary.

It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

When anger heats up it folds into fists.

Learning will not alter men's natural tempers, nor cure them of their sinful distempers; nor will it change the constitution of things in this world; a vale of tears it is and so it will be when all is done.

Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper down to humility.

she suffered from an "impetuosity of feeling." The effort to "say everything in a breath" caused her only to "begin at the end, or dash into the middle" of her argument when she felt the pressure to defend herself. The same pressure "gives my voice a tone, which those around me mistake for anger with them; and thus I leave the impression of having a confused head & a bad temper.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

I was so mad!

Casuarino se intemperou, gasto pela contrariação de Arcanjo Mistura. Vá pentear macacos, seria o impropério apropriado. Não é, porém, coisa que se diga a um barbeiro.

you lose your temper in front of people you do not know, you lose their respect and it is almost impossible to win it back. You must keep control—if you cannot control yourself, then you have no chance of controlling others.

Karate has helped me to control my temper, but my tongue still needs a handbrake or a dead man's switch.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.