(204 quotes found)
“Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“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.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.”
William Shakespeare
“Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
Samuel Johnson
“Abstinence is easier than temperance”
Seneca
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.”
M. Kathleen Casey
“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
Anthony Burgess
“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.”
Jackie Robinson
