Temper Quotes - Page 14

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

  William Warburton

  Imagination, Mind, Enthusiasm

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• Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

  George Horne

  Pride, Hands, Envy

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• Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sweet, Speech, Natural

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• An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Music, Teaching, Play

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• Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.

  Harold Nicolson

  Grateful, Men, People

  Harold Nicolson (1960). “Good Behaviour”

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• Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a youth to experience events which 'reveal the inner worth of the man; the edge of his temper; the fibre of his stuff; the quality of his resistance; the secret truth of his pretences, not only to himself but others.

  Kurt Hahn

  Character, Men, Secret

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• I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

  Edmund Gosse

  Littles, Might, Trouble

  Edmund Gosse (2012). “Father and Son”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

  Anna Benson

  Dream, Media, Annoyed

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• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Country, Hopeful, Proud

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• As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Girl, Mother, Anger

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• Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about in the world--people wielding political or religious authority who have been blinded by money, for example! That is the kind of evil young people should direct their rage at. Be angry about that, and you'll never lose your temper about trifling matters.

  Josei Toda

  Religious, People, Evil

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• 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

  Friendship, Young Friends, Play

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Struggle, Democracies Have

  "Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.

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• Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

  Isaac Watts

  Mind, Calm, Contemplating

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.185

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• There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ideas, Two, Age

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• So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!

  Abigail Van Buren

  Yesterday, New Day, Today

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• The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly....The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life....Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were.

  Louis-Sebastien Mercier

  Art, Light, Long

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• I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Way, Economy, Lost

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• Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

  Kathleen Casey

  Anger, Hatred, Consistency

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• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  Warren Christopher

  Important, Courtroom, Loses

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• To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

  Colin Davis

  Years, Loses

  "Calm after the storm" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

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• On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

  Calamity Jane

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

  Louis XIV

  Kings, Should, Ifs

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• You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

  Peter Oliver

  People, Ignorant, England

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• I lost my temper on stage.

  Michael Richards

  Lost, Stage

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