He is always soft spoken. He is never indignant and does not loose his temper. His mind is free from fear. He speaks softly and treats everybody with respect.
Sam Veda
It comes of being by yourself when you are growing up, because you`re reading and you`re forming an opinion, and there`s no-one to argue with you, so you become dogmatic. There`s no-one to temper your opinion, so you think you`re right.
Peaches Geldof
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances
David Hume
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
M. Kathleen Casey
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.
William Cowper