Temper Quotes

570 Temper quotes by 421 unique authors

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of… — James Gandolfini
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best… — Jeff Gordon
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain… — William Wordsworth
You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties… — James Anthony Froude
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. — Robert Frost
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. — Khalil Gibran
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. — Baltasar Gracian
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into… — Wes Craven
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. — Charles Dickens
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. — Charles Dickens
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't… — Julian Fellowes
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. — Sydney J. Harris
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. — William Hazlitt
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no… — Arthur Helps
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. — David Hume
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things. — Janet Jackson
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. — William James
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. — Joseph Joubert

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