Temper Quotes

• Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

  

  William Feather
  • Progress
  • Block
  • Temper

• 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
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Belief

• Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

  

  Wilkie Collins
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Wits

• It could happen in any game, but you know what? I don't hold any grudges. He's probably bitter still, but I'm just going to continue to pray for him, and hopefully it will get better, his temper will change. I still have respect for his bat, he's a good hitter and I'm just going to continue to do what I have to do. And I was glad that, when I'm OK, I don't need to hit anybody.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Game
  • Change
  • Grudges

• I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

  

  William Powell
  • Circumstances
  • Appreciate
  • Cop

• It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

  

  William Warburton
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Judgment

• I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Track

• You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Temper
  • Noticed
  • Calmed down

• A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

  

  William Cowper
  • Joy
  • Passionate
  • Fierce

• The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

  

  William Empson
  • Difficult
  • Accommodations
  • Forbearance

• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Temper
  • Exercises
  • Lungs

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

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Bad Temper

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

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Temper
  • Detrimental

• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Important
  • Temper
  • Controlling

• My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Tea
  • Effects
  • Temper

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

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Temper
  • Tides
  • Tidy

• If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

  

  William Law
  • World
  • Christian
  • Affection

• I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.

  

  Sunidhi Chauhan
  • Wait
  • Singer
  • Temper

• ...but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Depression
  • Hopes
  • Sanguine

• Don't lose your temper; use it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Anger
  • Temper

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

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • Remember
  • Temper
  • Civility

• More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Difficulties
  • Temper
  • Removed

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