Quotes about Temper

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

He believes in No-God, and he worships him," said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

People even lose their vocations because they find out that a man can spend forty or fifty or sixty years in a monastery and still have a bad temper.

If he desires what is good his temper can become the controlled instrument for fighting the evil that is in himself and helping other men to overcome the obstacles which they meet in the world. He remains free to desire either good or evil.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

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.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

The best remedy for anger is delay.