Top 100 Quotes About Temper
#1. You always were the hot head. You got a temper in you that can't be tamed, yet you also got a soft spot for stray dogs, kids in trouble and damsels in distress. See why folks label you a complex conundrum.
Vonnie Davis
#2. The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)
Devon Monk
#3. As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
#4. There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.
Jock Stein
#5. I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
Tony Dorsett
#6. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#7. Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#8. Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery.
George E. Sargent
#9. It is the surgeon's duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
Astley Cooper
#10. For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.
Robert Alexander
#11. A suspicion that lightness is not deeply serious (but instead whimsical) pervades aesthetic discourse. But what if lightness is a philosophical choice to temper reality with strangeness, to temper the intellect with emotion, and to temper emotion with humor.
Sarah Ruhl
#12. I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
Bobby Knight
#14. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu
#15. And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes
Margaret Widdemer
#16. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.
David Hume
#17. Granny Weatherwax always held that you ought to count up to ten before losing your temper. No one knew why, because the only effect of this was to build up the pressure and make the ensuing explosion a whole lot worse.
Terry Pratchett
#18. The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;
Thomas A Kempis
#19. My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.
Sylvia Fraser
#20. An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#21. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
#22. I am so unfortunate in my temper. I could manage slaves better than women. This time I'll be calm, and reason things out with her, or I'll blow out my brains.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#23. Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.
Cassandra Clare
#24. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
Nora Roberts
#25. Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Joseph Addison
#26. My temper is under control, he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.
Larissa Ione
#27. It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few.
Mary Shelley
#28. So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.
John Owen
#30. Lord, soften his arrogance and temper and intemperate habits. Make him a man after Your own heart . . . because somehow, against my will and surely Yours, he's stolen mine.
Laura Frantz
#31. He let out a soft, lethal laugh that raked claws down her temper.
Sarah J. Maas
#32. I didn't, couldn't, begrudge any woman who wanted Brad. I wanted him for everything - his strength, his weakness, his sexuality, his humor, his ego, his temper, and his security.
Alessandra Torre
#33. Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.
Lisa Scottoline
#34. I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.
Amy Chua
#36. One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death
Alison Weir
#37. A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Walter Savage Landor
#38. Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.
John Muir
#39. Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.
Ethan Black
#40. There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.
M.F. Moonzajer
#41. The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
George Eliot
#42. Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#43. She was not softly delicate in all her ways; but in disposition and temper she was altogether generous. I do not know that she was at all points a lady, but had Fate so willed it she would have been a thorough gentleman.
Anthony Trollope
#44. I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Paul D. Boyer
#45. I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with their tariff, get the money there is in it.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#46. In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Livy
#47. Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.
Eric Weiner
#48. I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
Charles Dickens
#49. A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
Lord Chesterfield
#50. Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.
Horace
#51. Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
Viktor E. Frankl
#52. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
#53. They've a temper, some of them
particularly verbs: they're the proudest
adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs
however I can manage the whole lot of them!
Lewis Carroll
#54. Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
J.M. Barrie
#55. The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
Gautama Buddha
#56. It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh,
Louisa May Alcott
#57. I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.
It made me patient when confronting your temper.
Toba Beta
#58. It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being ... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#59. 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.
Lisa Marie Presley
#60. People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.
Marc Edwards
#61. Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Joseph Addison
#62. 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.
James Lee Burke
#63. Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.
Henry Drummond
#64. The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
C.S. Lewis
#65. See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.
Miyamoto Musashi
#66. I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.
Tinie Tempah
#67. It is remarkable ... what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.
Virginia Woolf
#68. As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
Pliny The Elder
#69. Easy, pet." His voice was laced with soft amusement. "I detect evidence of a temper, which I've no doubt you inherited from the old man. I've seen his eyes flash just that way when his dander is up over some trifle.
Lisa Kleypas
#70. The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
Hugh Blair
#71. Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
#72. Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself.
Jean De La Bruyere
#73. I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
Andrew Flintoff
#74. Dean Holder? Messy brown hair? Smoldering blue eyes? A temper straight out of Fight Club?
Colleen Hoover
#75. Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
Rumi
#76. Yeah, you can ask that and I'll promise to do what I can do. But, Ace, since I was a kid, I had a temper. Tellin' you that don't mean I can't compromise, just means I am who I am, I know who I am, and you gotta take me as I am and learn to get over it.
Kristen Ashley
#77. I'm not an easy lay, I won't do a one-night stand, and my father is a mob boss with a short temper and a collection of guns. Still want to take me out?" - Ana Avdonin
Bethany-Kris
#78. This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.
Robert F. Kennedy
#79. My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.
Tom Conti
#81. To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#82. Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and your character. This is the same for everyone.
Da Xia
#83. Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia;
Jane Austen
#84. This was clearly one of those moments. Mild-mannered, Dexter-Devoted Rita, who never lost her temper and never, never said bad words, was doing both at the same time and directing it all at her innocent-just-this-once husband. But
Jeff Lindsay
#86. I don't wanna say I have a temper ... but I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I'm bitter. I won't show you, but you can see it. Probably if you bring me Godiva chocolate, I'll be your friend again!
Jesse McCartney
#87. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.
Sivananda
#88. If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't ... "
Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper."
You'll have no choice.
Frank Beddor
#89. I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.
Joseph Addison
#90. My temper began to rise
always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.
Jasper Fforde
#91. I've fallen in love with this woman, in spite of her smart mouth and wicked temper, or maybe because of them. Ellie Mason is the first woman I've ever loved, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let her slip through my fingers again.
Carmen Jenner
#92. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost it's temper.
Kahlil Gibran
#93. If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.
Joseph P. Farrell
#94. My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
J.K. Rowling
#95. Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour.
Oddny Eir
#96. The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.
Washington Irving
#97. Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
David Hume
#98. With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act as our coolest judgment bids us.
Theodore Roosevelt
#99. It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#100. 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
