Temper Quotes

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively,but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

You don't lose your temper and throw the cat out the door. You don't lose your temper and throw a dish at the dog and make him thing he's going to die.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper.

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.