Temper Quotes

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

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

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

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

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.