Temper Quotes · Page 11

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

— Jane Austen

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

— Penelope Gilliatt

I've got a powerful left hook and a lot of intensity. The intensity comes from the anger within.

— Kimbo Slice

TEMPER TANTRUMS: What you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children.

— Nikhil Saluja

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions..

— David O. McKay

If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both.

— James C Hagerty

Women are temperamental. Thats 90% temper and 10% mental.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I'm not someone that's gonna get up in your face all the time and all that kind of stuff. I mean, I…

— Andy Dalton

Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can…

— Jerome Groopman

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will…

— Anthony Liccione

I don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own…

— Rolando McClain

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption…

— May Sarton

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,…

— William Cowper

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the…

— Oswald Chambers

The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose,…

— Keshub Chandra Sen

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it…

— Honore de Balzac

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the…

— Edward Gibbon

Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of…

— William Law

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I…

— Charles Dickens

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

— Eva Mendes

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“What's most aggravating is feeling like I'm a radical for saying something so commonsense.”

— Arielle Greenberg

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

— Anthony Mackie

“There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...”

— Frank Herbert

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.

— Akhil Akkineni

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

— Rachel Stevens

“Please, please don’t lose your temper with Umbridge again or she might not let us play anymore!”

— J.K. Rowling

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

— Chuck Norris

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

— John Keats

“I've seen what you're going to understand, dear. It made me patient when confronting your temper.”

— Toba Beta

I have made so many mistakes in life, my temper and behavior all this doesn't do any good to anyone.

— Aditya Pancholi

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

— Charles Spurgeon

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

— Sylvia Fraser

Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.

— Marie Windsor