Temper famous quotes

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
-- Alfie Allen

#Hard Work #Temper #Punctual

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
-- Alfred Adler

#Inferiority #Temper #Bad Temper

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
-- Andrew Lau

#Crazy #Directors #Temper

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
-- Ava Gardner

#Honey #Temper

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Anger #Temper

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
-- Bernard Ebbers

#Way #Lost #Temper

Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
-- Bisco Hatori

#Boredom #Temper #Conclusion

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...
-- Bohumil Hrabal

#Soul #Sensitive #Temper

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.
-- Chester Bowles

#Grandchildren #Temper

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
-- Colin Davis

#Years #Temper

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
-- David Lloyd George

#Stupid #Savages #Temper

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)
-- Devon Monk

#Diapers #Demon #Temper

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
-- Dirk Bogarde

#Years #Twenties #Temper

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
-- Edith Hamilton

#Religion #Conservative #Temper

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Wrath #Righteous #Temper

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
-- Eva Mendes

#Scary #Temper #Angry

There is a variety in tempers of good men.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Men #Good Man #Temper

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
-- Frank Moore Colby

#Anger #People #Temper

Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.
-- George Horne

#Men #Civility #Temper

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
-- Harriet Martineau

#Religion #Pursuit #Temper

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
-- James Gandolfini

#Guy #Losing #Temper

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
-- James M. Barrie

#Weapons #Blades #Temper

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
-- Janet Jackson

#Temper #Bad Temper

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.
-- Jeanette MacDonald

#Scottish #Temper #Shows

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.
-- Joe Hyams

#Losing Yourself #Temper #Wells

I still have a temper, I suppose.
-- John Malkovich

#Temper #Stills

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
-- John Malkovich

#Temper #Wells

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
-- John Milton

#Lying #Endure #Temper

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.
-- Joseph Butler

#People #Remember #Temper

My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.
-- Larissa Ione

#Temper

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-- Laurence Sterne

#Wind #Lambs #Temper

Why, what a temper you are in!
-- Lewis Carroll

#Temper

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
-- Lord Acton

#Justice #Mercy #Temper

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
-- Louis XIV

#Kings #Should #Temper

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Want #Temper

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
-- Mark Twain

#Pride #Trouble #Temper

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.
-- Michael Bloomberg

#Passion #Catchy #Temper

I lost my temper on stage.
-- Michael Richards

#Stage #Lost #Temper

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
-- Naomi Campbell

#Emotion #Temper

An awful lot has been written about my temper.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Awful #Temper

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

#Three #Motivational Business #Temper

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
-- Paul D. Boyer

#Remember #Civility #Temper

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down.
-- Pema Chodron

#Mind #Trying #Temper

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Friendship #Ambition #Temper

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
-- Rachel Stevens

#Hot #Passionate #Temper

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

#Positive #Happiness #Temper

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
-- Rumi

#Complaining #Speak #Temper

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
-- Shirley Manson

#Tides #Temper

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.
-- Stephen King

#Temper

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
-- Susannah York

#Reign #Temper

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
-- Terry Brooks

#Fire #Use #Temper

Temper your future actions.
-- Tom DeLay

#Action #Your Future #Temper

I don't have a problem with my temper.
-- Tommy Lee

#Problem #Temper

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.
-- Victor Cherbuliez

#Men #Temper #Deals

My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
-- Vinnie Jones

#Age #Calm #Temper

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

#Important #Temper #Courtroom

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
-- Willa Gibbs

#Anger #Enemy #Temper

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
-- William Empson

#Accommodations #Forbearance #Temper

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
-- William Feather

#Block #Progress #Temper

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is
-- Zinedine Zidane

#Genius #Temper

Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper.
-- Gonjasufi

#Temper #Know Me #Knows

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.
-- Mardy Grothe

#Way #Argument #Temper

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
-- Sean O'Casey

#Would Be #Temper #Detrimental

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
-- Tatum O'Neal

#Call Me #Temper #Abusive

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
-- Andrew Flintoff

#Trying #Helping #Temper

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
-- Astley Cooper

#Recovery #Duty #Temper

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
-- Hugh Blair

#Order #Temper