Temper Quotes
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Adam Deadmarsh
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Adrienne Herron
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
George Eliot
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
C. S. Lewis
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A person's fate is their own temper.
Benjamin Disraeli
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Edmund Burke
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn
Abstinence is easier than temperance
Seneca
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
William Empson
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
John Burroughs
