61 Quotes About Temper

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon. Amit Kalantri

Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour. Unknown

And the way you lost your temper! " went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes-- Margaret Widdemer

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self. Criss Jami

Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder." But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. It sounds very hard, but let me tell you this: I would give all I have in the world if someone had given me that advice when I was your age and I had taken it." Philip looked up at him with surprise. The master forced his lips into a smile, but his eyes remained grave and sad." It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late. It does not improve the temper." He gave a little laugh as he said the last words and quickly walked out of the room. . W. Somerset Maugham

For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him. Plutarch

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit. Joyce Rachelle

You mess with my demons….you get the devil! Peter Cimino

Temper is a valuable possession, Never lose it with your obsession, The best way to win a fight, - Do not be mad — it’s not right. Temper is the strength of all, Distemper — weakness and fall, Tempered steel — strong and grit, Distempered iron — weak and brit. Munindra Misra

Your temperament can drive people away from you and then you live a regrettable life Israelmore Ayivor

Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn’t have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. Margaret Cavendish

... the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual Soke Behzad Ahmadi

To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you. Israelmore Ayivor

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. Michael Bassey Johnson

There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them. Youssef

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding! Israelmore Ayivor

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. George Eliot

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. Robertson Davies

The general kind and soft customs of Mustang were soon to strike me as exceptional. Apart from occasional disputes between husband and wife, which like family rows all around the world bring raised voices, I never heard a person scream or shout; Even the children had very civilised manners. In fact the only person I knew to consistently angry in Lo Mantang was myself, and Tibetans consider bd temper a Western characteristic. Take for example the reactions of European to missing his train; he will invariably swear under his breath. Who in our can stand frustration without giving vent to anger? I soon had to master my own temper, having raised my voice against one of the innumerable people who stopped to stare at me and my smal party, I was told by a peasant: ‘’I cannot understand; you are a great man, how is it that small things like myself deserve your wrath?’’ After that I learned to be tolerant, realising that by getting mad I was only debasing myself, and that it was stupid to be bothered by trivialities. Michel Peissel

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. George Horne

I guess you've got a spice of temper, " commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon L.m. Montgomery

There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don’t lose your temper and don’t get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path. M.F. Moonzajer

If you want to feel youthful..pink's your color. If you want to feel old..then it's blue rinse for you. If you want to feel sad..try a dark blue. If you want to say something cheerful..then it's yellow. If you want to say something racey..then it's red for sure. If you've lost your temper..then it's black as your heart. And if you want to be normal..well the only color which will show all of you is rainbow. . Anthony T. Hincks

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life? Ben Carson

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. Ron Pearce

Three things lit her match without fail–abusive assholes, idiots who didn’t use their turn signals, and unannounced shifters moving in on her territory. Katherine McIntyre

I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they’re the same ones what get your own back up. J.D. Jordan

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. Thomas Jefferson

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion. Criss Jami

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy. Aristotle

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong. Unknown

4.10 ANGERAnger makes a dull man witty, But keeps him poor in eternity, A man shrinks when he is angry, And grows in tranquil serenity.[90] - 4When anger flow in the body, You lose your temper — your folly, When distempered — a tragedy, You lose reason — a calamity.[91] - 4 Munindra Misra

On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper. Sara Sheridan

She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood". Marjorie Celona

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes. Ann Brashares

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. Samuel Butler

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding– certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. . Jane Austen

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them. Richelle E. Goodrich

Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Modesty, not temper. George Eliot

Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery. George E. Sargent

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it. Charlaine Harris

I lost my temper, " I finish. "I lost my temper. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."" Well, no one means to lose their temper, my boy, " the Captain smiles. "If they did, it wouldn't be lost. Rebecca Harris

Admire your offenders for they are never your offenders. They are only teachers in the class of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. How can you learn how to forgive when you have not been offended? How can you learn how to forgive seventy seven times seven when people have not offended you seventy seven times? Smile if you get offended, there is a lessons to learn! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it. Susanna Clarke

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good. Unknown

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. Sun Tzu

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous. Clive Barker

Lose your temper and you lose the fight. Margaret Atwood

I've seen what you're going to understand, dear. It made me patient when confronting your temper. Toba Beta

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. Khalil Gibran

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. Horace

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse. Unknown