I need to control my mouth.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Fans have to try to control their emotions, as we do as footballers.
I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.
I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.
I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.
If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.
I am not allowing myself to get carried away.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
I have to reign myself in a lot.
