Temper Quotes - page 6

All the precepts of Christianity agree to teach and command us to moderate our passions, to temper our affections towards all things below; to be thankful for the possession, and patient under the loss whenever he that gave it shall see fit to take away. (William Temple)
Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly. View quote
Suzanne Collins
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large; and, particularly, for their brethren who have served in the Geld; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. View quote
George Washington
Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. View quote
Shirley Manson
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Now before we do any digging around in that blond head of yours to find out the truth, I suggest you cool your temper. And I know just where you can do that best.” Jace blinked. "Are you sending me to my room? View quote
Cassandra Clare
Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Ann looked down at him, spread on the bank preparing to go to sleep, and lost her temper. "Then you should go and tell him! You should look after him! He's all alone in this wood, and he's quite small, and he doesn't even know he's not supposed to go out of it. He probably doesn't even know how to work the field to get food. You - you calmly make him up, out of blood and - and nothing, and you expect him to do your dirty work for you, and you don't even tell him the rules! You can't do that to a person!" (Diana Wynne Jones)
It's all about discipline - and having an inner calm. That's one of the main driving forces for me when I step into the ring - you can't have a fight and lose your temper. You need to remain calm and focused when everything around you is in chaos. It's a similar thing for the buddhists - they remain calm and disciplined in the hurly burly of everyday life. View quote
Johnny Nelson
He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax... View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
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. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult. View quote
Camille Paglia
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. View quote
Hannah More
Sorry,” I said sweetly, "I'm the new one with the quick temper and the uncontrollable homicidal tendencies. View quote
Tanith Lee
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Who will ride fiery, ahead of the legions, Nag for a steed, and crusts for meal, Temper his sword in the heat and in ice storms, Sleep on straw pallets, labor 'til dawn, Bring down the armies, the walls and the forts With but a handful of stout Russian men? View quote
Gavrila Derzhavin
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
We should observe the place, the occasion, the temper in which we find the person who listens to us, for if there is much art in speaking to the purpose, there is no less in knowing when to be silent. There is an eloquent silence which serves to approve or to condemn, there is a silence of discretion and of respect. In a word, there is a tone, an air, a manner, which renders everything in conversation agreeable or disagreeable, refined or vulgar. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. View quote
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice. View quote
Richelle Mead
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. View quote
Joseph Campbell