Quotes About Temper

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. – H. Stern Quote

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. – Cherie Carter-Scott

90 percent of friction in our daily lives is caused by the wrong tone of voice. – Author Unknown

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. – Booker T. Washington

Speak when you’re angry and you’ll make the best speach you’ll ever regret. – Lawrence J. Peter

Time spent getting even would be better spent getting ahead. – Author Unknown

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured. – Publius Cornelius Tacitus

When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius Quote

It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman. – Proverb 21:19

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way… that is not easy. – Aristotle Quote

No one loves the man whom he fears. – Aristotle

When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. – African Proverb

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. – Benjamin Franklin

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. – Epictetus Quote

We boil at different degrees. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
if you poison us, do we not die?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
– William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Speak when you are angry–and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret. – Lawrence J. Peter Quote

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. – Proverbs 14:29

It is easy to fly into a passion–anybody can do that–but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way–that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. – Aristotle Quote

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. – Eric Hoffer

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. – Ecclesiastes 7:9

Ethel: You know Ricky’s temper.
Lucy: Yeah, we’ve met.
– From an episode of “I Love Lucy”

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. – George Bernard Shaw

The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.b- Bertrand Russell

You’ve obviously mistaken me for someone who cares. – Unknown Quote

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Nonviolence is about speaking the whole complicated truth, the truth of our rage, the truth of our longing, the truth of our tears and our laughter, the truth of our smallest fears and our grandest dreams. – Pam McAllister

I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry. – Maxine Waters

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.- Chinese Proverb

A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger. – Proverbs, 15:1

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. – Walter Savage Landor