Temper Quotes

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

"He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances."
-David Hume

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."
-Sean O'Casey

"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
-Oscar Wilde

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

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
-Robert Frost

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts."
-Charles Dickens

"Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper."
-Irish Proverb

"He owned and operated a ferocious temper."
-Thomas Russell Ybarra

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."
-Sir Arthur Helps

"I've never really had problems controlling my temper. I am an intense guy on the football field, and sometimes I get carried away. I got carried away two days ago. I'm just going to make the situation right from this point forward. Can I move forward? I have no choice."
-Bill Romanowski

"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
-George Grenville

"A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer."
-Joseph Addison

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
-Baltasar Gracian

"If he loses his temper that easily, where he has to kick somebody, then what's gonna happen next time when he loses his temper, he may do more damage."
-Anita Thomas

"People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving."
-Mark Edwards

"We will taste it in one or two years and continue to experiment with other vintages. We want to temper our enthusiasm with our experience."
-Paul Pontallier

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."
-James M. Barrie

"But you should never let that gentle personality fool you - he could have a temper at times."
-Charlie Creamer

"The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth."
-William H. Gass

"It's just tough for him to temper that because that's his nature. He's a fireplug, just a fight type of guy. At quarterback, you can't always do that when things go bad. You can tell it on the field – he still shows emotion."
-Jim Chaney

"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."
-M. Kathleen Casey

"Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim."
-Charles Buxton

"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?"
-Wes Craven

"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."
-William Warburton

"Guidance for 2006 and the long-term is likely to temper expectations, while potentially setting a base for upside."
-Dan Ford

"If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both."
-James C. Hagerty