Losing Your Temper Quotes

#1. My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

Hugh Jackman

#2. Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

Dalai Lama

#3. I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

Alex Ferguson

#4. There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Jock Stein

#5. Granny Weatherwax always held that you ought to count up to ten before losing your temper. No one knew why, because the only effect of this was to build up the pressure and make the ensuing explosion a whole lot worse.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The way of the warrior is the way of knowing. If that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. Pain and frustration will be your only reward if you try.

Christopher Paolini

#7. 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

#8. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

#9. There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God,
trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

Mother Teresa

#11. If you lose your temper, you lose!

Richard Diaz

#12. 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

#13. I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.

Robby Gordon

#14. People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

Marc Edwards

#15. I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly;

Leo Tolstoy

#16. When you lose your temper, you lose yourself - on the mat as well as in life.

Joe Hyams

#17. Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

Jack Nicklaus

#18. A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

David Gemmell

#19. It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

Anthony Trollope

#20. 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

#21. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like

Lewis Carroll