Temper Quotes

570 Temper quotes by 421 unique authors

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play… — Robert Baden-Powell
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the… — Baron de Montesquieu
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy… — Paul Hamilton Hayne
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft
A person's fate is their own temper. — Benjamin Disraeli
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy… — George Santayana
Good temper is an estate for life. — William Hazlitt
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 yourself—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

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