Temper Quotes · Page 11

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

— Marilyn Manson

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

— Sofia Vergara

My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

— Vincent Cassel

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

— James Moore

Do not combine bad temper and bad words, because it will bring only chaos and fray.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

— Homer

I've been thinking about anger quite a lot. It can be a default emotion for me.

— Fearne Cotton

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who…

— Jane Austen

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for…

— Honore de Balzac

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your…

— Jack Nicklaus

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of…

— Albert Belle

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no…

— Benjamin Carson

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to…

— Audre Lorde

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio…

— Sunidhi Chauhan

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is…

— Isaac Watts

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper…

— Gerald R. Ford

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was…

— Frederic William Maitland

But times and tempers are changed. Rebels are everywhere to be found who no longer wish to obey the law without knowing…

— Peter Kropotkin

Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation,…

— Edward Gibbon

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then…

— Edith Sitwell

“What were you mad about?” “It’s not important. The only thing I’m worried about is you.” I leaned back to look up…

— Jamie McGuire

[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which…

— Pope Pius XII

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

— Mike Krzyzewski

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

— Benjamin Franklin

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

— Jon Cryer

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

— John Wesley

)I'm a peaceful person who happens to be filled with voilent rage. ;D

— Aneeq Chohan

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

— Elbert Hubbard

I am very short-tempered but my anger doesn't last long.

— Mimi Chakraborty

“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”

— Robertson Davies

I'm not depressed, I'm at the point where I'm so pissed off I would kill myself to hurt them.

— Slp

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

— Janet Jackson

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

— Bernard Ebbers

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

— Jonathan Majors

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

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

— Dele Alli

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

— Pietro Aretino

Nah, I don't have a bad temper. I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.

— Anonymous