“ A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 443
“ A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper — a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances. ”
- David Hume- Copy
- 189
“ When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ”
- Chuck Norris- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 662
“ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 1.2K
“ So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 314
“ I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a mature record means. ”
- Ian Williams- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you never lost your temper, never got down on yourself, always developed a strategy before you hit, and always played within your own capabilities. ”
- Jack Nicklaus- Copy
- 71
“ Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 224
“ The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 789
“ I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. ”
- Charles Spurgeon- Copy
- 1.4K
“ They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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