Quotes About Temper

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.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

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

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful.

A little fire of anger can burn everything that you have built over your lifetime.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

It was a notable speech of Erasmus, if spoken in ear nest, and his wit were not too quick for his con science[47]—he said he desired wealth and honour no more than a feeble horse doth a heavy cloak-bag. And I think every Christian in his right temper would be of his mind.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Good temper is an estate for life.

Rage is a candle, it will always burn out.

Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

Why have all men, I ask, in all ages, complained incessantly of the miseries of life? … They have no just reason, says one: These complaints proceed only from their discontented, repining, anxious disposition…. And can there possibly, I reply, be a more certain foundation of misery than such a wretched temper?

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.