Temper Quotes
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The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.
— Mardy Grothe
I don't have a problem with my temper.
— Tommy Lee
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
— John Quincy Adams
Temper your future actions.
— Tom DeLay
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
— Neville Cardus
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit
— Elizabeth Taylor
If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I still have a temper, I suppose.
— John Malkovich
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
— John Milton
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.''Temper, you mean.'
'No, temperature. It's getting chilly. — Steven Erikson
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
— Seneca The Younger
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.
— Alain De Botton
Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?
— R.A. Salvatore
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
— James Gould Cozzens
Your psychotic behavior and constant temper tantrums intrigue me.
— Coco J. Ginger
Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king.
— Mark Lawrence
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
— William Empson
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly.""I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."
"Apparently I am. — Kristin Cashore
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.
— James Lee Burke
David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.
— Dorothea Benton Frank
My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.
— Charlaine Harris
All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.
— Donna Tartt
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.
— Julian Lennon
You've got a bit of a temper, don't you?
— Stephenie Meyer
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
— Mark V. Hurd
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
— John Keats
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
— Joseph Joubert
Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
— Barbara Kingsolver
She hadn't expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper.
— Kristin Cashore
Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.
— Helen Reddy
I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.
— Michael Bloomberg
The one who can't restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -Horace
— Genna Rulon
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
— Edith Hamilton
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
— Washington Irving
17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,
— Anonymous
to understand him, the temper and the challenge, the brokenness and the stubbornness,
— Lisa-Jo Baker
The crash sliced through my head; it left me gasping and shivering, like all the other times I let my temper out, but the voices stopped.
— Rosamund Hodge
If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion.
— Kate Morton
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
— Pietro Aretino
The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.
— Sean Murphy
A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
— Lewis B. Smedes
There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.
— A.W. Tozer
People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.
— George Eliot
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
— Lord Chesterfield
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
— Samuel Butler
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
— Bette Davis
The wise man never loses his temper.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
— Marilyn Manson
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
— George Eliot
No, I don't have a problem with my temper.
— Tommy Lee
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
— Alex Ferguson
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
— Kahlil Gibran
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
— Rumi
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside ... that's how your temper will cool down.
— Pema Chodron
A person's fate is their own temper.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
— Louis XIV
Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
— Benjamin Franklin
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.
— Cassandra Clare
Nik gripped his fork so tightly his knuckles turned white. His temper flared up like a beast inside him, clawing at the walls of its fleshy prison.
— Quinn Anderson
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
— Franz Grillparzer
