Quotes about Temper

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.

Your wrong habits of eating have so educated your moral powers that you have not the spirit of a Christian. Your temper is perverse, and your treatment of dumb [voiceless] animals is wrong.

The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

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?

When you choose to be patient, you respond in a positive way to a negative situation. You are slow to anger. You choose to have a long fuse instead of a quick temper. Rather than being restless and demanding, love helps you settle down and begin extending mercy to those around you. Patience brings an internal calm during an external storm.

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

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.

He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.

Bad temper is bad temper even in the apparent privacy of your own hard drive, and harsh and unjust words, when released into the wild, rampage around and do real damage. And as for the practice of saying mean and untrue things while hiding behind a pseudonym—well, if I get a letter like that it goes straight in the bin. But

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.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.