Temper Quotes

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

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 an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

I lost my temper on stage.

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

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 important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.