It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. — Mark V. Hurd Copy Share Image
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson Copy Share Image
We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money,… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
I got a short - I got a temper. I fight in a cage for a living. There's a reason people like… — Matt Riddle Copy Share Image
I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them… — Julia Moss Seton Copy Share Image
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“As to answering though, said Sara, trying to console herself, I don't answer very often. I never answer when I can help… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
“She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind,… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image