Temper Quotes

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

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.