Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. — Evan Esar
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods. — Alain de Botton
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. — Will Rogers
Short Bad Temper Quotes
Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him. — William Shakespeare
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. — Benjamin Franklin
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. — J. G. Holland
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry. — Robert H. Schuller
Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them. — Daniel Handler
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. — Ford Frick
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
Anger is a brief lunacy. — Horace
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. — Daniel Webster
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
I Have A Bad Temper Quotes
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit — Elizabeth Taylor
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things. — Janet Jackson
I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament. — Donald Trump
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever...I hope. — Kirsten Miller
I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. — Theodore Roosevelt
What Is Anger Quotes
Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions. — Nouman Ali Khan
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive. — Jay Sekulow
Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action. — Leymah Gbowee
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. — Paul Ryan
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. — Suzanne Somers
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. — Jennifer Edwards
Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you. — Robert G. Allen
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light. — J. M. Coetzee
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. — Joseph Hunter
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. — Emma Thompson
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper. — David Gemmell
I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No. — Debbie Reynolds
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. — Sean O'Casey
I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands. — William Powell
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection. — Howard Thurman
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Ill Tempered Quotes
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. — Miller Williams
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it. — Harriet Martineau
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. — C. S. Lewis
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. — Rumi
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C. S. Lewis
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. — Hannah More
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. — Honore de Balzac
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies. — Vladimir Nabokov
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure. — Hosea Ballou
A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. — Socrates
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do. — Alan Sillitoe
Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life. — Josemaria Escriva
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything. — Lucille Ball
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. — Samuel Butler
Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb. — D. A. Carson
I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane. — Sophia Tolstaya
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. — Cassandra Clare
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. — Charles Buxton
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing — Abraham Lincoln
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. — Paul D. Boyer
But certain winds will make men's temper bad. — George Eliot
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted. — Charles Darwin
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. — Mike Krzyzewski
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden. — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. — S. J. Perelman
For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers. — Patrick Ness
Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers. — Mick Jagger
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others — Elbert Hubbard
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. — Isaac Barrow
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft
Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper! — Emily Bronte
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers. — Sayings
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite. — Agatha Christie
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. — Benjamin Franklin
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. — Paul Harris
I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I could only do that if I was seeming quite perky. — Olivia Williams
Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. — Donald Trump
You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids. — Gore Vidal
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. — Evelyn Waugh
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty. — Zhuangzi
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