Temper Quotes

570 Temper quotes by 421 unique authors

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats… — Aristotle
The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to… — Thomas Jefferson
I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness… — Maya Angelou
My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down. — Pema Chodron
A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. — Lord Chesterfield
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel. — James E. Faust
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.. — David O. McKay
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit — Elizabeth Taylor
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers. — Vincent Cassel
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away. — Vinnie Jones
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have… — Nathan Fillion
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. — John Milton
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze… — Oswald Chambers
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which… — Dante Alighieri
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. — George Eliot
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. — Benjamin Franklin
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for… — Jane Austen

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