Temper Quotes

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

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

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

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

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

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

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

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.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

Good temper is an estate for life.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

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

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.