Temper Quotes - page 14

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. (Charles Dickens)
Of all thieves fools are the worst they rob you of time and temper. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak. View quote
Homer
Many advocate aids to check Anger; the commonest being to count ten before you start; but if not constant, you tend to turn into the man who used to count ten before he lost his temper, but later counted in two's to get there quicker. View quote
Peter de Noronha
Mr. Nixon, the [late] Vice-President of the U. S. A., has said that the time to lose one's temper is when it is deliberate, whilst another wiseacre has stated, "Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." View quote
Peter de Noronha
It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. View quote
Mark Twain
There is a powerful expression of our yearning. But now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identification is needed, but we must not let it lead us to hatred. We can become intoxicated and lose sight of our real goal to fully participate in the political system of the United States. View quote
Reies Tijerina
Righteous indignation Your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
There are times we don't want to hear about the need to temper our best hopes in order to achieve our most vital security. But we still need to do it. Before we can triumph, we must survive. Before liberty can prevail, the possibility of liberty must be preserved. View quote
Alan Keyes
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism. (Edith Hamilton)
Betsy, like all good women, had a temper of her own. View quote
Will Carleton
The only qualification for knowing Divine things is to love them; to know Christ and to see the light of His revelation, we have only to aspire after a filial temper. View quote
William Adams
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country. View quote
Winston Churchill
There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. View quote
Ben Carson
The American political system is a remarkable example of the coexistence - sometimes harmonious, more often uncomfortable - of all three dispositions. Americans, we might say, are anarchists in their values (privacy, liberty, individualism, property, and rights); realists in their means (power, law, coercive mediation, and sovereign adjudication); and minimalists in their political temper (tolerance wariness of government, pluralism, and such institutionalizations of caution as the separation of powers and judicial review. View quote
Benjamin Barber
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. ...There are great truths to tell, if we had either the courage to announce them or the temper to receive them. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
Pliny the Elder
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. View quote
Aristotle
They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize. View quote
Walt Disney
Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can. (Abraham Lincoln)
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry we put our good temper down to ourselves. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Much less are children capable of reasonings from remote principles. They cannot conceive the force of long deductions. The reasons that move them must be obvious, and level to their thoughts, and such as may be felt and touched. But yet, if their age, temper, and inclination be consider'd, they will never want such motives as may be sufficient to convince them. View quote
John Locke
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche