Keeping Your Temper Quotes

#1. One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

Alice Miller

#2. That was progress, right there. Except no one would ever know how hard I was working to keep my temper under control, because the whole point of keeping your temper under control is not doing things like throwing a milk carton in someone's face even though they clearly deserve it.

Cat Clarke

#3. Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?

Hanif Kureishi

#4. In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Rudyard Kipling

#5. Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

Jeff Jarvis

#6. People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.

George Eliot

#7. When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner.

Jeph Loeb

#8. Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed

Paulo Coelho

#9. Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

Javier Bardem

#10. Authors ... keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less depressed than those who don't.

Timothy Pina

#11. I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

#12. Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

Alec Waugh

#14. Make one day a mono-meal. This means, choose just one fruit and have it as much as you want. Apples, pears, or anything in season are great for mono-meals.

Valentina Zelyaeva

#15. Waiting is a skill like anything else.

Lee Child

#16. I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Elizabeth Edwards

#17. I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer.
But it does.

Kapka Kassabova

#18. She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

Abraham Verghese

#19. Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.

Charles A. Beard