“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.” ShouldGovernmentFormCertainPassionPrinciplesPracticeEssentialsBibleGuidesOccasionsTemper Author:John Quincy Adams
“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.” IfsMenShouldMayMeanDesireHonestDangerousHatredEvery ManEndeavorTemperProvokingGood WillEnmityDesire To Live Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author
“There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.” MenShouldMindPleaseWarmGrantedRememberedTemperPositivelyNeutralityDispassionate Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.” IfsShouldWellsMayDoeTwoIdeasHappensAgeFitBe GoodTwo ThingsTemperGood Ideas Author:Jawaharlal Nehru