Temper Quotes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Wilson Mizner

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

George Grenville

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

Agha Zahid

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

Samuel Butler

Good temper is an estate for life

William Hazlitt

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

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

William Butler Yeats

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pietro Aretino

It`s very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you`re doing.

Warren Christopher

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

G.K. Chesterton
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