Temper Quotes · Page 17

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

— Robert Frost

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.

— Victor Cherbuliez

When I lose my temper, honey, you cant find it anywhere.

— Ava Gardner

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

— Hannah More

Your temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it!

— Anonymous

I don't really lose my temper that much, but when somebody mistreats my guys, I just go crazy.

— Kenny Chesney

“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.”

— David Hume

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow…

— Kofi Annan

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen…

— Tom Conti

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly,…

— Katy Jurado

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

— David Hume

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting…

— Ann Brashares

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are…

— Aeschines

What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie…

— Larry McMurtry

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you…

— Louise Erdrich

I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into…

— Aarti Sequeira

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good…

— Chester A. Arthur

... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the…

— Maria W. Stewart

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

— Chino XL

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

— Joseph P. Farrell

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

— Alex Ferguson

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

— David Lloyd George

“To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

— Virginia Satir

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

— Pete Townshend

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

— Vinnie Jones

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

— Agatha Christie

My mother is a strong person. She's funny but volatile, with a pretty bad temper.

— Grayson Perry

My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.

— Larissa Ione

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

— Alfred Adler

I just get angrier and angrier if you hit me because anger is where I'm truly happy.

— Mike Perry