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Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
You are aggressive", says the emotional abusive.
Never lose your temper, except intentionally.
Never lose your temper.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.
I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
I still have a temper, I suppose.
Temper in a woman is only tolerated, never celebrated.
Steel and temper, daughter.
Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.
Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.
I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds
Anger is an uncontrollable force when given to one who is broken
My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.
Harsh words pierce like a spear and they destroy the inner being.
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring
But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.
... a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper
a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make
everybody more or less uncomfortable.
When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
I am not particularly well-behaved.
People often brag about being "hot-tempered" or "fiery" when a more accurate description would be: "I stopped developing emotionally when I was a small child and therefore never learned to control my tantrums.
Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.
I am so unfortunate in my temper. I could manage slaves better than women. This time I'll be calm, and reason things out with her, or I'll blow out my brains.
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.
At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.
Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
There's no style of contempt like the stuff one kind of savage has for another,
All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.
You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance. You
Disrespect is the weapon of the weak
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.
I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.
Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
Temper is itself an obstacle.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.
No, I don't have a problem with my temper.
I'm an aggressive person.
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.
If only I could rein in my temper like this all the time, then my world would probably be a better place. Alex
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Fault, impeccably mannered, and had no real
A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!
prone to fits of 'immoderate arrogance'.
There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.
I'm pretty short-tempered, you butthead. But I guess I gotta wait a little while before I can blow up at yah.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
A person's fate is their own temper.
Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.'
'Temper, you mean.'
'No, temperature. It's getting chilly.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
And silent, settles into full revenge.
I do not like to be unkind.
Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.
Averse alike to flatter, or offend;
Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
If you're aggressive in your dealings, that's how you'll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you'll never have peace of mind.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone,
This is no world for gentle people
A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
Temperamentally unfitted for romance
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Unkindness is being unkind to oneself.-Fida Fayez Qutob