To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day,… — William James Copy Share Image
After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of… — William Law Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“Temper is a valuable possession, Never lose it with your obsession, The best way to win a fight, - Do not be… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop,… — William Powell Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist,… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“You stand before a god! Speak your eloquence for all posterity. Be Profound!" "Profound ... huh." Temper was silent for a long… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When I'm training for a fight, I'm not the same person that I normally am when I'm at home. I'm always thinking… — Rashad Evans Copy Share Image
At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
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