Temper Quotes · Page 12

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

— Jake LaMotta

As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?

— Terence Crawford

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

— Joseph Addison

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

— Agatha Christie

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

— William Butler Yeats

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

— Cassandra Clare

And you wonder why I get so mad...some things never change.

— Anonymous

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of…

— Anonymous

For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Aquarians and their temper, sometimes they can restrain themselves. Sometimes they go all in, leaving someone hurt in the end.

— Anonymous

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

— Plutarch

“It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You have a raging temper and are rude to virtually everyone you meet. However, you area good man. Somewhere in there is…

— Bry Ann

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT…

— Chester Bowles

I let my temper get the best of me and I go off for no reason, This is the beginning of kickin'…

— Z-Ro

These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the…

— Harold Nicolson

The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and…

— Anna Kavan

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist,…

— Harvey Weinstein

I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a…

— Vita Sackville-West

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop,…

— William Powell

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper…

— Edward Gibbon

Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and…

— Walter Pater

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

— Joel Stein

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

— Marc Edwards

“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

— Susanna Clarke

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

— Fisher Stevens

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

— Francis Quarles

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

— Sean O'Casey

“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”

— Henry Drummond

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

— Mario Balotelli

“And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself…they didn’t know what to make of him.”

— Victoria Schwab

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

— Wilferd Peterson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?”

— Lewis Carroll

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

— Ted Leo

“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.”

— Jane Austen

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

— Zoe Bell