Temper Quotes
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.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.