Temper Quotes

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.

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

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in 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.