Jeff Cooper Quotes

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

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 have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

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.

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

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

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

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

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

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

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'