David O. McKay Quotes

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself in certain situations and learn how to harness that anger.

There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

I can't fully rule out that I lose my temper sometimes.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.