Temper Quotes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. (Robert Frost)
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. View quote
Bruce Lee
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. View quote
Joseph Addison
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. View quote
Chuck Norris
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. View quote
Charles Dickens
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. View quote
Washington Irving
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. View quote
Anthony Trollope
If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you. View quote
Stephen King
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it. View quote
Sean O`Casey
Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. (Thomas Paine)
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. View quote
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. View quote
Joseph Addison
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. View quote
David Hume
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. View quote
William Hazlitt
Good temper is an estate for life. View quote
William Hazlitt
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. View quote
Eva Mendes
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. View quote
Joseph Addison
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 (novelist))
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. View quote
Warren Christopher