Natalie Maines Quotes

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

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I don't get mad too much.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

No flipping tables over any more for me.

I really don't get angry.

I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

You have to be patient. I'm not!

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

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

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

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

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.