Henry Rollins Quotes

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

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

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

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

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

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

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

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

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

I know I've had an attitude that can explode, but I'm trying my best to not step out of bounds.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

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.

I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

Don't lose your temper; use it.