Quotes of: Tempered Keyword

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

William Butler Yeats

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Owen Felltham

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

Rachel Zoe

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Philip Massinger

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Aristotle

I love your hair!" Marlee gushed. "I wish I'd been born with red hair. It makes you look so alive. I hear that people with red hair have bed tempers. Is that true? Despite my rotten day, Marlee's manner was so vivacious that my smile grew wider. "I d...

The Selection

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other...

Mastery through Accomplishment

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon a...

Pride and Prejudice

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Thomas Aquinas

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Louis XIV

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

Marilyn Manson

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Brian Reynolds Myers

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Colin R. Davis

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Billy Sunday

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

Ezra Taft Benson

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Aeschylus