Temper Quotes

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

Education, Losing, Almost

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

Fool, Enough, Soon

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

Keep, Mad, Sweet

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

Reason, Act, Animal

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran

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

Heart, Hurts, Touch

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.
Thomas Paine

Good, Virtue, Principle

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

Virtue, Principle, Moderation

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James

Almost, Religious, Facts

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

Men, Lose, Worth

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

Down, Eyes, Away

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.
Edmund Burke

Forward, Selfish, Spirit

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

Good, May, Credit

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

Everything, Wrong

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

Point, Dispute, Gains

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness, Men, Less

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats

Angry, End, Lose

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

Great, Small, Seems

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.
Arthur Helps

Beauty, True, Humility

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

Religion, Family, Health

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

Men, Real, Principles

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

Reason, Act, Animal

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

Good, Calm, Fortune

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

Himself, Won, Manner

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.
Emma Thompson

Death, Hurt, Crisis

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

Anger, Cannot, Wish

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.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Everything, Destiny

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

Happy, Excellent, Suit

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.
Jackie Robinson

Winning, Wanted, Lose

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