Quotes about Temper
Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
It need not seem at all strange that sin should so blind the mind, seeing that men's particular natural tempers and dispositions will so much blind them in secular matters; as when men's natural temper is melancholy, jealous, fearful, proud, or the like. 3.
- Jonathan Edwards
In the work of conversion, the Holy Spirit renews the heart by giving it a divine temper, and it is one and the same divine temper thus wrought in the heart, that flows out in love both to God and man.
- Jonathan Edwards
But most extraordinary—and evidence to Mrs. Wilberforce of a "Great Change" indeed, though one she certainly welcomed—was a marked absence of that irritability and harsh temper he had sometimes displayed, especially toward her.
- Eric Metaxas
every personal or behavioral problem one might wish to change (for example, bad temper, perverted sexual desires, depression, anxiety, overeating) results ultimately from violations of the command to love.
- Larry Crabb
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.
- Ernest Hemingway
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
- William James
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
- John Malkovich
If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.
- Gordon Hinckley
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
- Josh McDowell
Keep your temper. Nobody else wants it.
- Robin Jones Gunn