Temper Quotes

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

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.

Good temper is an estate for life.

Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak.

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

I don't really lose my temper that much, but when somebody mistreats my guys, I just go crazy.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

I lost my temper on stage.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.