Temper Quotes
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Abstinence is easier than temperance (Quote by - Seneca)
These guys grew up hitting it hard and wanting to hit it hard. You can always learn to temper it. It's hard to go the other way, learning to hit it straight first. (Quote by - Brian Craig)
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Once a person is appointed, they are basically independent. If you're president, you want someone who would temper their criticism of you. (Quote by - Drew Matus)
Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
With "gentleness" in his own character, "comfort" in his house, and "good temper" in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete. (Quote by - Old German Saying)
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. (Quote by - William Empson (1))
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, (Quote by - No man.)
Argumentative, screaming and yelling, temper tantrums, anxiety attacks, the works. (Quote by - Ron Furman)
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. (Quote by - Emile Durkheim)
It was a hot-tempered day by the defense. Real hot-tempered. (Quote by - Cecil Sapp)
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife (Quote by - Bible)
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. (Quote by - H. Stern Quote)
I knew he had a short temper, but I never thought he would take something that far. He could have come to me for help. He didn't even tell me anything. (Quote by - George Cline)
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. (Quote by - Buddha)
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. (Quote by - William Penn)
Nonvoting is a fruitless temper tantrum. (Quote by - Bruce Wright)
We have not seen any glimpse of his legendary, hair- trigger temper or the arrogance that personified his conduct at Enron. (Quote by - Robert Mintz)
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
His escapades with his temper didn't fit the district. The normal man on the street was embarrassed. (Quote by - John Dadian)
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
I've got a temper that every so often can come up and surprise me ... (Quote by - Barry Otto)
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. (Quote by - Proverbs 14:29)
Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation. (Quote by - Truman Capote)
I don't really mind this although sometimes I get afraid of Willy. I get afraid of his temper. You never know what he's going to do. (Quote by - Taylor Branch)
Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, they become disloyal towards their husbands, however carefully they may be guarded in this ,world . (Quote by - Guru Nanak)
Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. (Quote by - John Ray)
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. (Quote by - Lord Shaftesbury)
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
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. (Quote by - Bainbridge Colby)
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. (Quote by - Maxine Waters)
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. (Quote by - James Gandolfini)
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. (Quote by - Cherie Carter-Scott)
The temper you saw on the set was his personality. (Quote by - Michael Douglas)
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way… that is not easy. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. (Quote by - Hector Hugh Munro)
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. (Quote by - Margery Allingham)
Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to? (Quote by - John Angell James)
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. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I don't think it's going to temper earnings that much. But it isn't going to be a positive, that's for sure. (Quote by - Chuck Hill)
Our intermediate-term 'strong buy' rating for Intel stands -- first-quarter PC inventory rebuild should temper seasonal weakness. (Quote by - Merrill Lynch)
We are excited about the earnings growth achieved in the first half of the year, but temper our enthusiasm for the second half purely because we face strong comparisons resulting from last year's solid performance. (Quote by - David Glass)
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (Quote by - John Keats)
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. (Quote by - Jackie Robinson)
I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. (Quote by - Lisa Marie Presley)
Nonviolence is about speaking the whole complicated truth, the truth of our rage, the truth of our longing, the truth of our tears and our laughter, the truth of our smallest fears and our grandest dreams. (Quote by - Pam McAllister)
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. (Quote by - David Hume)
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. (Quote by - Epictetus Quote)
It's just tough for him to temper that because that's his nature. He's a fireplug, just a fight type of guy. At quarterback, you can't always do that when things go bad. You can tell it on the field – he still shows emotion. (Quote by - Jim Chaney)
A theory must be tempered with reality. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
I'll make them live as brothers should with brother, And keep them in good-humor with each other. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. (Quote by - James Callaghan)
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. (Quote by - Harriet Martineau)
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. (Quote by - Hannah More)
I think there's a lot of similarities, but John manages his temper a lot better. (Quote by - Adam Pine)
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, "Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you." (Quote by - Elizabeth Kenny)
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
I think what Garth was doing was indulging himself, having a bit of a temper tantrum to get back at Stephen Harper. (Quote by - Ezra Levant)
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speach you'll ever regret. (Quote by - Lawrence J. Peter)
It's all a question of when do you want to try and temper things. At this point, there's no immediate danger and I don't think the Fed's actions are meant to slow the economy. (Quote by - Bob DiClemente)
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. (Quote by - G. S. Hillard)
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace. (Quote by - Josh McDowell)
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. (Quote by - Charles Perrault)
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Just having this monitoring device will hopefully help to temper some of their urges. (Quote by - Sean Walsh)
Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks. (Quote by - Rakesh Shankar)
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak (Quote by - Homer)
I know all about his reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent. (Quote by - Louie Andrus)
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
I've learned how to temper my personality to take things as they are, like when people get upset at work and get in my face. I don't have to react. (Quote by - Brian Simon)
When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it. (Quote by - Anonymous)
When anger rises, think of the consequences. (Quote by - Confucius Quote)
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. (Quote by - Jeff Gordon)
I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper. (Quote by - James Moore)
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. (Quote by - Chuck Norris)
I've always emulated her work ethic because she was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day, but have a great attitude, come back and try again. That was a huge lesson for me to learn. (Quote by - Sasha Cohen)
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. (Quote by - Louis XIV)
This sort of thing has happened in the past. … Do you have trouble controlling your temper? (Quote by - David Letterman)
I worked on my temper and worked with Jos from 1998 to 2002 on the mental side of the game. (Quote by - Retief Goosen)
I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through. (Quote by - Robby Gordon)
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. (Quote by - George Orwell)
She must temper her anger and frustration. (Quote by - Johnny Anderson)
'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
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. (Quote by - Julia Roberts)
If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
There were some tempers that flared and got out of whack for about two days and then festered some over the winter, which did concern me. It's been taken care of now. (Quote by - Terry Ryan)
Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter (Quote by - George Grenville)
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. (Quote by - Warren Christopher)
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. (Quote by - Aristotle)
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
The initial number is stronger than expected. The six-month outlook has come back to temper that. (Quote by - Lisa Finstrom)
Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors, are generally humble, flattering, and cringing to their superiors. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. (Quote by - Proverb)
Management may temper that outlook slightly given the ongoing difficulty in the PC environment. (Quote by - Christopher Shilakes)
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
We will taste it in one or two years and continue to experiment with other vintages. We want to temper our enthusiasm with our experience. (Quote by - Paul Pontallier)
There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish (Quote by - The Talmud)
He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can. (Quote by - John Aragon)
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
If anything, these last two years have taught us that we should temper our expectations. (Quote by - Dan Culloton)
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness (Quote by - Robert Southey)
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. (Quote by - William James)
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East. (Quote by - Richard H. Davis)
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces! (Quote by - Spencer Tracy)
Good temper is an estate for life. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
If he loses his temper that easily, where he has to kick somebody, then what's gonna happen next time when he loses his temper, he may do more damage. (Quote by - Anita Thomas)
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. (Quote by - Ecclesiastes)
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He's trying to use the strategy of Greenspan-speak - to temper homebuyers' euphoria, (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time (Quote by - Owen Felltham)
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. (Quote by - Peter Oliver)
He did have a temper, but I never saw him strike anybody. (Quote by - Sandra Angle)
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I'm sure Ambassador Han deeply regrets that he lost his temper, because the things he said are inexcusable, (Quote by - Christopher Hill)
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
There was no malicious intent. Maybe his temper was a little shorter than normal. I don't think it was that bad. (Quote by - Mickey Arthur)
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The consumer still has life. It does temper the overall gain, but we're still going to see the consumer spending this quarter. (Quote by - Robert Brusca)
I'm really trying to work on changing my reputation for having a huge attitude and bad temper and the whole thing. (Quote by - Pat Perez)
Each of the major players has tempered their approach by also highlighting higher-priced offerings. (Quote by - Stuart Morris)
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show. (Quote by - Jeanette MacDonald)
It's unfortunate. Jose clearly got fouled, and the guy threw an elbow. I wish Jose could have kept his temper, but he retaliated. (Quote by - Paul Retherford)
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
He is always soft spoken. He is never indignant and does not loose his temper. His mind is free from fear. He speaks softly and treats everybody with respect. (Quote by - Sam Veda)
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate (Quote by - Voltaire)
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. (Quote by - Charles H. Spurgeon)
No one loves the man whom he fears. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. (Quote by - Cervantes)
Higher mortgage rates that we have witnessed over the last six months are starting to temper demand for the housing sector. (Quote by - Stan Shipley)
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. (Quote by - Doug Plank)
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. (Quote by - Ford Frick)
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. (Quote by - Mark V. Hurd)
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. (Quote by - Joseph Farrell)
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. (Quote by - William Blake)
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. (Quote by - James Gould Cozzens)
He owned and operated a ferocious temper (Quote by - Thomas Russell Ybarra)
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
We boil at different degrees. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. (Quote by - Aristotle)
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. (Quote by - George Eliot)
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. (Quote by - Desi Arnaz)
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Look at the temper on her. What does Michael have to put up with? (Quote by - Chris Evans)
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light. (Quote by - Anonymous)
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. (Quote by - James Lee Burke)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The month of May was a counter-trend rally where investors used good news as a reason to temper their bearishness and cancel out short-selling contracts. (Quote by - Sam Stovall)
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. (Quote by - Emma Thompson)
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. (Quote by - Hugh Blair)
A person's fate is their own temper. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills… Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. (Quote by - Tenzin Gyatso)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. (Quote by - William Warburton)
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The 'O' in GOP sometimes stands for overreact, and given the chance to throw a temper tantrum, they will. (Quote by - Bill Whalen)
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. (Quote by - Alan W. Watts)
To lose your temper is only useful once a year. (Quote by - Colin R. Davis)
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. (Quote by - Aristotle)
There is such a term, called 'judge baiting' -- baiting the judge into losing her cool and her temper. I don't know that they (Merck's lawyers) sit around and think that, but anything is possible. (Quote by - Steven Wittels)
I discovered that John's temper could be frightening, (Quote by - Cynthia Lennon)
A sunny temper gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. (Quote by - Thomas Guthrie (1))
Speak when you are angry–and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. (Quote by - Lawrence J. Peter Quote)
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. (Quote by - William Allen White)
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Tempers are short. But I'm surprised that this happened. I can't even understand how a brother could take that step. (Quote by - Chief David Wynn)
Tempers need to cool, (Quote by - Jacques Chirac)
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you never lost your temper, never got down on yourself, always developed a strategy before you hit, and always played within your own capabilities. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Unfortunate impracticability of temper and spirit of opposition of those in authority over oneself misled oneself into frequent collision with my predecessors. (Quote by - Thomas Mitchell)
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers. (Quote by - African Proverb)
Probation is not right. People of ordinary temper do not solve that problem by picking up a gun and firing six times. Do not get lost in the definition of sudden passion. (Quote by - Mia Magness)
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Health consists with temperance alone. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
I temper my enthusiasm for the way we played defense because of the fact that they've been on the road forever. (Quote by - Mike Krzyzewski)
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both. (Quote by - James C. Hagerty)
It is easy to fly into a passion–anybody can do that–but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way–that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. (Quote by - Aristotle Quote)
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. (Quote by - Aristotle)
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
But you should never let that gentle personality fool you - he could have a temper at times. (Quote by - Charlie Creamer)
It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The greatest challenge during our deployment has been the need to temper our aggressiveness. There has been a great demand from our agents for the ability to turn around a quote in 24 hours. (Quote by - Michael Clifton)
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
I blame him for losing his temper, but I blame her for bringing him into our house. She let that abuse happen. (Quote by - Mandinga Browne)
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. (Quote by - Horace)
People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving. (Quote by - Mark Edwards)
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
