Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
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
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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
When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it. — Unknown
Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life. — Christabel Pankhurst
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause. — Khushwant Singh
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. — Warren Christopher
If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. — Dalai Lama
My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman
Not Losing Your Temper Quotes
It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself. — T. E. Lawrence
I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper. — Buck Brannaman
Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. — Christopher Paolini
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime." -Kahlan Amnell — Terry Goodkind
Losing My Temper Quotes
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. — Joseph Hunter
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
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
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. — Sean O'Casey
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
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. — Jackie Robinson
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. — James Gandolfini
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. — Eva Mendes
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. — Julia Roberts
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends. — Willa Gibbs
When Your Mad Quotes
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. — Anais Nin
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death. — Denton Welch
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. — Naomi Wolf
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. — Louis de Bernieres
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names. — T. S. Eliot
As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness. — Jessica Lange
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria or your own unfeminine inadequacy. Women have learned to submit to pain by hearing authority figures - doctors, priests, psychiatrists - tell us that what we feel is not pain. — Naomi Wolf
When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is. — Laurence Fishburne
I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are." — Bill Cosby
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. — Alan Moore
Bad Temper Quotes
A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit — Elizabeth Taylor
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. — C. S. Lewis
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
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
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. — Alfred Adler
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
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
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. — Joseph Hunter
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to. — Robert Baden-Powell
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
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
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
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
When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it. — Unknown
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. — Jackie Robinson
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life. — Christabel Pankhurst
Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it. — Jack Nicklaus
The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense. — Yokoyama Sakujiro
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. — James Gandolfini
He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself). — J. R. R. Tolkien
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats
I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause. — Khushwant Singh
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. — Eva Mendes
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. — Julia Roberts
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends. — Willa Gibbs
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. — Alastair Campbell
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk. — Alfie Allen
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education. — Gilbert Murray
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
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. — Warren Christopher
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. — John Malkovich
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. — Andre Maurois
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. — S. J. Perelman
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. — Mark Twain
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Orson Welles
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. — John Malkovich
If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. — Dalai Lama
My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain
WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT. — Chester Bowles
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up. — C. S. Lewis
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child. — Louise Erdrich
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