Temper Quotes
570 Temper quotes by 421 unique authors
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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children,…
— Louise Erdrich
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Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is…
— Jim Butcher
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Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires…
— Christopher Paolini
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Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go…
— Amelia Barr
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My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check. She's a sweet…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
— Margaret Atwood
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Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
— Bisco Hatori
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Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.
— Cassandra Clare
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You don’t sound very patriotic,†observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?†“Patriotic?†Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,†he said.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Well,†she said. “I’m frustrated.†“Don’t make me angry-kiss you.†“Give me the laundry.†“Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.
— Rainbow Rowell
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If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you…
— Rajneesh
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A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves…
— David O. McKay
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them,…
— Aristotle
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
— Oscar Wilde
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One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to…
— Alice Miller
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
— John Milton
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The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and…
— George Orwell
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Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable…
— J I Packer
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I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get…
— C.S. Lewis
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We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
— Unknown Author
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