Temper Quotes · Page 13

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

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Agatha Christie

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

— Terence Crawford

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

— Jake LaMotta

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’m angry as hell. I’m angry for all the people who should be angry but aren’t, either because they’re too stupid or…

— Jarod Kintz

Donald Trump is a demagogue. Period. The fervor of his crowds recalls Nasser's Egypt. His convictions are illiberal. His manners are disgusting.…

— Bret Stephens

Remember you New Years resolution, no more getting upset and loosing your temper. Watching your blood pressure and thinking happy thoughts.

— Anonymous

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the…

— Daniel Defoe

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a…

— Horace

“You didn’t need to go charging in there like some kind of hero.” I feel a flicker of anger. I hold on…

— Lauren Oliver

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to…

— Tony Dorsett

The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.

— Toto Wolff

“That was progress, right there. Except no one would ever know how hard I was working to keep my temper under control,…

— Cat Clarke

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of…

— Thomas Hood

You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly,…

— Lisa Kleypas

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch…

— Rumi

Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically:…

— J. I. Packer

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence…

— Lord Chesterfield

The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment…

— Frederick William Faber

I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they…

— Luke Evans

“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

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

— Elsie de Wolfe

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

— Marc Edwards

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

— Joel Stein

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Victoria Schwab

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

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

— Francis Quarles

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 do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

— Ted Leo

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