quotes about Temper
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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 AllenSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
-- Alfred Adler -
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
-- Andrew LauSource : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2007.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
-- Ava GardnerSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
-- Bernard Ebbers -
Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
-- Bisco Hatori -
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 HrabalSource : Bohumil Hrabal (2007). “I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)”, p.85, New Directions Publishing
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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 BowlesSource : Chester Bowles (1954). “Ambassador's Report”, New York : Harper
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To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
-- Colin DavisSource : "Calm after the storm" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.
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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
-- David Lloyd George -
The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)
-- Devon MonkSource : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.123, Penguin
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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
-- Dirk Bogarde -
In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
-- Edith Hamilton -
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
-- Elbert Hubbard -
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
-- Eva Mendes -
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There is a variety in tempers of good men.
-- Francis Atterbury -
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
-- Frank Moore ColbySource : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”
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Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.
-- George Horne -
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For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
-- James Gandolfini -
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
-- James M. BarrieSource : James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag
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I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
-- Janet JacksonSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 MacDonaldSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.
-- Joe HyamsSource : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.70, Bantam
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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
-- John Malkovich -
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
-- John Milton -
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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 -
My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.
-- Larissa Ione -
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-- Laurence SterneSource : Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Elizabeth Draper, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904). “Life of Lawrence Sterne by Percy Fitzgerald”
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
-- Louis XIV -
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 -
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
-- Mark Twain -
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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 -
Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
-- Naomi Campbell -
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf -
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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
-- Owen Feltham -
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
-- Paul D. Boyer -
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 -
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
-- Rachel Stevens -
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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 -
I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
-- Shirley Manson -
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If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.
-- Stephen King -
Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
-- Susannah York -
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
-- Terry BrooksSource : Terry Brooks (2012). “A Knight Of The Word: The Word and the Void: Book Two”, p.124, Hachette UK
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Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.
-- Victor Cherbuliez -
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
-- Vinnie JonesSource : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
-- Warren Christopher -
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I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
-- Willa GibbsSource : Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”
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The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
-- William Empson -
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
-- William Feather -
If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is
-- Zinedine Zidane -
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Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper.
-- GonjasufiSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.
-- Mardy Grothe -
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
-- Sean O'Casey -
I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
-- Tatum O'Neal -
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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 FlintoffSource : Source: www.theguardian.com
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It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
-- Astley CooperSource : Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.30
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Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
-- Hugh Blair