Temper Quotes · Page 9

Don't let the sun go down on me.

— Elton John

Control your jealousy because I cant control my temper.

— Anonymous

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

— Chuck Norris

“Please, please don’t lose your temper with Umbridge again or she might not let us play anymore!”

— J.K. Rowling

My anger tells me firstly that there's a need of mine that's not getting met.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Arielle Greenberg

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

— Anthony Mackie

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

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Susanna Clarke

Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as…

— Kumar Mangalam Birla

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution…

— Joseph Addison

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely…

— Amitava Kumar

My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy, Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly, Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't…

— T.I

I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.

— Maxine Peake

If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to…

— W. S. Gilbert

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make…

— Charles Dickens

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I…

— Russell Kirk

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless…

— John Quincy Adams

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no…

— Helen Keller

You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry.…

— Anonymous

The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day,…

— William James

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of…

— Frank Beddor

I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't…

— Alex Ferguson

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

— Fisher Stevens

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Agatha Christie

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

— James E. Faust

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

— Jeremy Collier