Temper Quotes - Page 16

• There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

  Molly Harper

  Running, Bystanders, Hills

  Molly Harper (2011). “How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

  Alfie Allen

  Hard Work, Loses, Punctual

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

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• They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

  Pietro Aretino

  Suffering, Contentment, Merit

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• I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Passion, Catchy, Ifs

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• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

  Jose Rizal

  Children, School, Effort

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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• Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Light, Guilt

  Joseph Addison, Inchbald (1816). “Cato: a tragedy in five acts”, p.13

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• Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

  Dalai Lama

  Morning, Anger, People

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• When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

  James A. Garfield

  Presidential, Shadow, Election

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• Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

  Plutarch

  Moving, Passion, Men

  "Parallel Lives: Demosthenes and Cicero". Book by Plutarch. Section 3,

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• Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

  Agatha Christie

  Anger, Safety, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951

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• I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

  Lewis Carroll

  Trying, Flamingos, Programming

  Lewis Carroll (1869). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.133

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• Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Errors, Solitude

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.37, Routledge

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• Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Anger, Character

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, History, Political

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• I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessed, Sick, Healthy

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Self, Taught

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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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• A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Thinking, Should

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mistake, Needs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revenge, Hoe, Lust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

  James E. Faust

  Adversity, Fire, Iron

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• A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

  David O. McKay

  Anger, Passion, Men

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• My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

  Vincent Cassel

  Father, Crazy, Light

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• My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

  Vinnie Jones

  Age, Calm, Mum

  "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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