I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs?… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues. — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable… — Greg Bryk Copy Share Image
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If you're lucky on a team, even if you're not sisters or brothers, you become such a family that you get that… — Colleen Jones Copy Share Image
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image