Temper Quotes - Page 9

• ... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Ideas, Soul, Mind

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• Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Men, Deals, Loses

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• There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

  May Sarton

  Able, Sometimes, Dishes

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• I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Morning, Two, Insane

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• It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

  Astley Cooper

  Recovery, Duty, Cheerfulness

  Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.30

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• While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

  Albert Belle

  Motivation, Attitude, Recovery

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.15, ECW Press

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• Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

  William Arthur Ward

  Voice, Hot, Dull

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God,
  trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

  Mother Teresa

  Serenity, Path, Losing

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• If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

  Horace Bushnell

  Pestilence, Taste, Principles

  Horace BUSHNELL (1849). “Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc”, p.14

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• I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Leaving, Wish, Sparks

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• When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Selfish, Should Have, Victory

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

  Mardy Grothe

  Way, Argument, Loses

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• Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Losing, Troublemaker

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• There is a theory, that I rather subscribe to. The frame story implies that if he doesn't change, she will kill him. It's all very complex and subtle. The story is about a woman who persuades a man in power to a different temper and attitude, and so it is about women's wiles, what women will get up to. She has a plan, she has a scheme.

  Marina Warner

  Attitude, Men, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Trying, Helping, I Can

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Culture, Succeed

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

  Cass Sunstein

  Connections, Fairy Tale, Tales

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

  John Shelby Spong

  Strong, Democracy, Unions

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Self, Mind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

  Edward Albee

  Attention, Crafts, Pay

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Ever wonder how much patience you should have with someone, you know, before you lose your temper? Infinite. But careful now. That doesn't mean you have to wait for them, stay with them, or hang around them. Lord no, it just means that for as long as you choose to keep them in your life, understanding them, not changing them, is everything.

  Mike Dooley

  Spiritual, Mean, Should Have

  Mike Dooley (2012). “Even More Notes From the Universe: Dancing Life's Dance”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.

  Oliver $

  Strength, Hands, Focus

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• The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Punishment, Soul, Weakness

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• To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Discipline, Progress

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Whimsical, Fortune, Caprice

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