Top 141 Temper Quotes

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can’t lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that’s unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren’t so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

I don’t have a problem with my temper.

I guess I found the life as a musician too counterproductive, as so much time was spent in tour buses & remote hotel rooms. As I am moderately hyperactive, this didn’t suit my temper.

I think when you’re happy, emotions are right near the top – mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily… and I beg for forgiveness easily.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama’s boy.

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I’m now constantly telling them not to do that.

It’s my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers – men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

I’m not going to have temper tantrums anymore.

I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.

I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

I must admit, even though I’m the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I’m going to check Mom’s genealogy.

If you ever watched ‘Hercules,’ you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.

My dad had a temper. I have a temper. Most people I know have a temper. And I think it comes out mostly with your family. I don’t think it’s unique to the Buscemis, but it’s something I’ve been able to tap into when I play certain roles.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I’ve gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I’m acting.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

My temper manifests itself when I can’t find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

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

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

I have made so many mistakes in life, my temper and behavior all this doesn’t do any good to anyone.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

GamerGate is really a sexist temper tantrum. That’s kind of a silly, funny way of putting it, but it’s kind of what it feels like, right? They’re going after and targeting women who are trying to make changes in the industry. They’re attacking anyone who supports women.

I don’t have an explosive temper. People seem to think that – maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I’m actually kind of goofy.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

I have a bit of a temper.

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of pressure, you let off some steam, but I also try not to do that because it’s unfair to my wife.

There’s definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don’t know where it came from. I’ve had it all my life. My mom was always like, ‘You’re going to end up in jail with that temper!’

I would say, as loving as I am… I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes – lost my temper, did silly things – but little by little, I’ve gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.

I had a temper problem even before I did this film, but doing ‘Arjun Reddy’ has made me more impatient.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It’s made it easier for me to make a living.

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

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

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

There’s a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that’s what I love: Guys never seem to know when they’ve come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.

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

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?

When I see a mom embarrassed because her kid is having a temper tantrum, I’m like, ‘Please! Do you think I’ve never gone through that?’ Women tend to be too hard on themselves.

Leftists are fighting back against Trump not with policy differentials, but rather with insane rhetoric and temper tantrums.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

When I lose my temper it’s because I decide to. If I do something it’s because I want to do it.

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