(196 quotes found)
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
Antisthenes
“It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog”
Mark Twain
“It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves”
C.S. Lewis
“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
Robert Frost
“So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.”
Proverb
“Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.”
James Matthew Barrie
“She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.”
Jane Austen
“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.”
William Shakespeare