Temper Quotes

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

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

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.