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"I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control." -
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Top 5 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"
"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well."
Top 5 quotes from Anger
"I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it."
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get."
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