I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When You Develop The Ability To Listen To Anything Without Losing Your Temper Or Self-Confidence, It Means That You Have Become Well-Mannered… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons. — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
