Temper Quotes

570 quotes by 421 authors

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my… — Amy Chua
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature… — Charles Perrault
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even… — William H. Gass
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. — Unknown Author
If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him. — John C. Maxwell
The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge… — William Lyon Phelps
It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to… — Unknown Author
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal… — Joel Barlow
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. — Owen Feltham
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play… — Robert Baden-Powell
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the… — Baron de Montesquieu
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy… — Paul Hamilton Hayne
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft
A person's fate is their own temper. — Benjamin Disraeli
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy… — George Santayana
Good temper is an estate for life. — William Hazlitt

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