Temper Quotes

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.