It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Warren Christopher

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Ford Frick

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Desi Arnaz

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore De Balzac

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
Calamity Jane

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Edward Weston

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
James Gould Cozzens

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Harriet Martineau

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie