Dalai Lama Quotes

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

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

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

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

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

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

I don't get mad too much.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

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

This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he's being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.

I have a bit of a temper.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.