Temper Quotes
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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.
Aristotle -
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde
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To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.
George Washington -
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-Powell -
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
Lucille Ball -
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 -
I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
Naomi Campbell
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
Lata Mangeshkar -
'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
Isaac Newton -
Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.
Victor Cherbuliez -
I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Tatum O'Neal -
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Harriet Martineau -
For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris -
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 -
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.
Julia Roberts -
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
Irwin Edman -
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
William Feather -
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
Rudyard Kipling
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I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.
James Boswell -
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Isaac Watts -
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
Tim Robbins -
The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
William H. Gass