Temper Quotes

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

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.

~ Oddný Eir

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

~ Charles Dickens

Never lose your temper.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.

~ Moutasem Algharati

Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.

~ Moutasem Algharati

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

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

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

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.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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