Temperament Quotes

Temperament Quote of the day

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best.

I think temperament is my single greatest asset.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Music inflames temperament.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.