Temper Quotes

570 quotes by 421 authors

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;… — William Blake
WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE… — Chester Bowles
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look… — Cecelia Ahern
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable… — Bobby Knight
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged… — Rachel Naomi Remen
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. — Hannah More
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. — Mark Twain
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. — Germaine Greer
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit. — Carlos Castaneda
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail… — John Owen
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I… — Thomas Huxley

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