A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Wes Craven

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater

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

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
George Grenville

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

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
M. Kathleen Casey

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats