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Quotes About Temper

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
~ Peter Jennings
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.
~ Simon Hobday
I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.
~ Steve Carell
anger cancels good judgement!
~ Sister Souljah
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
~ George Grenville
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
~ Robert Southey
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
~ Richard Steele
Have you noticed when you go on a diet the first thing you lose is your temper.
~ Robert Orben
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
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
~ Arthur Hailey
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
~ Bruce Lee
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
~ Will Rogers
Make the iron hot by striking it.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
~ Jack Nicklaus
If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.
~ Robyn Wheeler, Born Mad
Lon Birdie had said, 'Sammy has his daddy's temper, you don't want to cross him.' But Sammy would be crossed in this life again and again, and how would he learn to handle being crossed if the people who cared never crossed him?
~ Jan Karon
She [Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
~ Jane Austen
Do your best to be empathetic when your child cries (or has a temper tantrum). He may just be frustrated with his lack of abilities.
~ Jane Nelsen
Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.
~ Edith Wharton
The idea that any rash answer might provoke an unpleasant outburst tempered her disgust with caution, and she answered with a laugh.
~ Edith Wharton
It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.
~ Edmund Burke