Temper Quotes

570 quotes by 421 authors

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy… — K.J. Parker
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret… — Honore de Balzac
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. — George Grenville
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper. — Gautama Buddha
If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself. — Joseph P. Farrell
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons… — Plato
If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested… — Jon Gruden
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his… — Thomas Paine
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. — Evelyn Waugh
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are… — Thomas Hobbes
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love… — Russell Kirk
Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears… — Confucius
I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm… — Unknown Author
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the… — Abraham Lincoln
A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. — Lewis B. Smedes
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the… — Isaac Watts
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer threeâ€Œâ€“â€Œyour own lust, Satan's temptation, and your… — John Flavel
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. — Laurence Sterne

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