Temper Quotes · Page 14

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

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

— Anonymous

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to…

— Benjamin

Sometime I just lost my passions then I lost my temper, but I try hard to take a deep breath. Over and…

— Debora Yaory

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

— Al-Ghazali

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

If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in…

— William Law

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next-…

— Jasper Fforde

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

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

— Joe Dunthorne

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

— Sebastian Vettel

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

— Frank Moore Colby

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

— Mark Twain

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

— Anonymous

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

— Doug Plank

Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

— Kacey Musgraves

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

— Sidney Poitier

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

— S. J. Perelman