Temper Quotes · Page 7

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

— Gore Vidal

I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

— Aaron McGruder

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

— Edmund Burke

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

— William Hazlitt

“It’s my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

— Washington Irving

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,…

— William Cowper

“Yeah. I have a temper. But it’s one I’ve learned to control. Really? Really. How do you figure? You’re still standing, aren’t…

— Lynette Eason

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,…

— Pliny the Elder

I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never…

— Maya Angelou

Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

— Miyamoto Musashi

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says…

— Denise Mina

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy…

— George Washington

Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail…

— Christine Feehan

Her elf is going to do just that,” he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost…

— Kim Harrison

Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;…

— Frederick William Faber

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made…

— Anonymous

Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good…

— Arthur Lynch

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself…they didn’t know what to make of him.”

— Victoria Schwab

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

— Francis Quarles

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

— Sean O'Casey

“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.”

— Henry Drummond

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

— Mario Balotelli

“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.”

— Jane Austen

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

— Zoe Bell

“I warn you, dear child. If I lose my temper, you lose your head. Understand?”

— Lewis Carroll

And you wonder why I get so mad...some things never change.

— Anonymous

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

— Cassandra Clare

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

— Agatha Christie

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

— Jake LaMotta

As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?

— Terence Crawford

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

— Joseph Addison

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri