(204 quotes found)
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Charles Dickens
“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
“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
Robert Frost
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”
“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 brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
William Shakespeare
“Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.”