Temper Quotations

We are pleased to see results improve, but our enthusiasm is tempered by several factors.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.