Quotes about Temper

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?