“[On Anger] [T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Ever wonder how much patience you should have with someone, you know, before you lose your temper? Infinite. But careful now. That… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned… — Tana French Copy Share Image
This is real. This is not a phase. This is not a temper tantrum. The average American who I believe makes this… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
The modern era of feminism relies on a lot of accepted premises. The biggest one is that men are predators, that they're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
“Hot or not, there went my tenuous grip on my temper. 'I don't need you looking out for what's best for me,… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I used to have a short temper. I still have one and when I lose it, it's bad. I think it comes… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead. They are… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your… — W. Patterson Copy Share Image
If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost… — David Chang Copy Share Image
I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“One little temper tantrum isn’t going to scare me away.” “I can’t guarantee it won’t happen again.” “I work every day with… — Joan Johnston Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
![“[On Anger] [T]he instinct of self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits of anger and strife, has its roots in the physical constitution, and is one among the sins of the flesh. [of the spirit . . .]…” quote by Andrew Murray](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8c9/andrew-murray-1530_andrew-murray_on-anger-t-he-instinct-of-self-preservat_1857069.png)
![“I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in…” quote by Ava Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/953/ava-gardner-8168_abuse_i-dealt-with-men-who-had-tempers-and-who_2636922.jpg)
