Temper Quotes · Page 13

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

— William Shakespeare

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

— Willa Gibbs

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

— Shaun Livingston

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

— Courtney Love

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

— Omari Hardwick

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

— Ellen Glasgow

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

— Rumi

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how…

— Ben Stokes

He doesn’t beat me,” I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.” “She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But…

— Karen Marie Moning

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness…

— Joseph Addison

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you…

— Anonymous

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

— William Arthur Ward

“I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle…

— Marjorie Celona

“Temper is a valuable possession, Never lose it with your obsession, The best way to win a fight, - Do not be…

— Munindra Misra

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

Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was…

— Amy Tan

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands…

— David A. Clarke, Jr

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum,…

— Eleanor Catton

I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think…

— Liam Howlett

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding…

— Jane Austen

“People can’t unshackle all of their true strength without taming their temper.”

— Shambala Sect Picazo Basha

When a man's temper gets the best of him, it reveals the worst of him.

— Vikrant Parsai

“His temper, always so close to the surface these days, was rising again.”

— J.K. Rowling

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

— Rudyard Kipling

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

— Isaac Watts

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

— Thomas Otway

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

— David Gemmell

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

— Christabel Pankhurst

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

— Meg Cabot

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

— Leo Tolstoy

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

— Henry Rollins

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

— C. S. Lewis

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

— Hugh Jackman

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

— Anne Bishop