Temper Quotes

570 quotes by 421 authors

I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra,… — Ava Gardner
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make… — Tim Robbins
I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are… — Jim Gaffigan
It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once… — Michael Palin
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. — Susannah York
There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it… — Jack Black
When you lose your temper, you lose yourselfâ€”on the mat as well as in life. — Joe Hyams
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother… — Babe Ruth
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. — Harriet Martineau
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that… — George Washington
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys… — William Cowper
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him… — William Cowper
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us. — Samuel Rutherford
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper. — Rudyard Kipling
I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper.… — Helen Keller
Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every… — Grenville Kleiser
The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns,… — Phyllis McGinley
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
Women temper men. We have a good influence on them. — Helen Reddy

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