Temper Quotes

570 quotes by 421 authors

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost… — Jack Nicklaus
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the… — Daniel Defoe
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager… — Frederic William Maitland
When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper. — Anne Bishop
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey wonâ€™t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine… — Gilbert Murray
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of… — Isaac Barrow
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. — Mark V. Hurd
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose… — Howard Thurman
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this… — John Ruskin
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. — Mark Twain
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. — Marcel Boulestin
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive. — Tatum O'Neal
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if… — Catharine Beecher
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. — William Warburton
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations. — George Horne
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the… — George Sweeting
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our… — Boyd K. Packer
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us… — Harold Nicolson

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