Temper Quotes - Page 18

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

  Arthur Helps

  Would Be, Half, World

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• The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Adversity, Tree

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• What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heart, Offering

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Mom, Long Ago, Honor

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Humble, Blessing, Patient

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• Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

  George Eliot

  Heart, People, Evil

  George Eliot (2006). “Everyone and everything in George Eliot”, M E Sharpe Inc

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• The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Men, Self

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• It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

  Richard Whately

  Annoyed, Important, Cheerful

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• It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Real, Heart, Men

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• She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.

  Nalini Singh

  Men, Walks, Willing

  Nalini Singh (2007). “Caressed By Ice”, p.84, Penguin

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• I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

  David Sedaris

  Mom, Dad, Jealous

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• 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

  Men, Self Control, Wit

  Wilkie Collins (2008). “The Woman in White”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Father, Ideas

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Men, Whole, Ifs

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• As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.

  Robin Lakoff

  Girl, Children, Women

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• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Safety, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

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• Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious effort to control his temper and keep from breaking Kevin’s hand. Off. Why couldn’t guys find a more original way to test each other’s manly prowess? Arm wrestling might have been more subtle. Or maybe comparing the length of their…canines.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pain, Wrestling, Men

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.84, MIRA

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• It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Too Late, Mediocrity, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.

  Connie Brockway

  Love, Sleep, Fighting

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• She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Understanding, Mind

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.175, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Philosophy, Men, Blue

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Heart, Dark, Cities

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Religious, Men, Thinking

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• If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
  I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.
  Each little fault of temper and each social defect
  In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Erring

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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