Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

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

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

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

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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 wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

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

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.

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.

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.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

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

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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