Temper Quotes · Page 8

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

“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

— Susanna Clarke

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

— Fisher Stevens

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

— Joel Stein

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

— Marc Edwards

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

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances

— David Hume

I was definitely a tyrant - ask any dancer I've worked with. They were surprised if I was ever nice to them.…

— Arlene Phillips

“Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp,” Cody said. “You evidently don’t know Jessie,” Wyatt said. “If she’s in one of her tempers she’d…

— Larry McMurtry

“If this life has any meaning, surely one is to dismount in small pieces the temper, so even if you cry no…

— Tiberiu Popovici

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses…

— Carl Maria von Weber

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

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to…

— Ravi Zacharias

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of…

— Plato

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

— John Keats

Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.

— Akhil Akkineni

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

— Anthony Mackie

“There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...”

— Frank Herbert

Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“What's most aggravating is feeling like I'm a radical for saying something so commonsense.”

— Arielle Greenberg

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

— Sylvia Fraser

Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.

— Marie Windsor

“I've seen what you're going to understand, dear. It made me patient when confronting your temper.”

— Toba Beta

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

— Charles Spurgeon

If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both.

— James C Hagerty

I've got a powerful left hook and a lot of intensity. The intensity comes from the anger within.

— Kimbo Slice

Women are temperamental. Thats 90% temper and 10% mental.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

— Paul D. Boyer

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

— Kristin Cashore

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

— John C. Maxwell