Temperament Quotes
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Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.
— Sondra Radvanovsky
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
— Sivananda Saraswati
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
— Honore De Balzac
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
— Sydney J. Harris
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
— Charles Francis Adams Jr.
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
— Philip Levine
Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
— J. Paul Getty
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
— Louis Kronenberger
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jameis had unique competitive temperament," Dilfer said, evoking the name of the star of the 2011 Elite 11, Jameis Winston. "That's a 5.
— Bruce Feldman
The temperament reflects everything like a mirror.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
— Thomas Dekker
Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
— Wayne Rooney
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
— Frank Moore Colby
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.
— Edwin Markham
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
— Jacob Bronowski
Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up.
— Izabella Scorupco
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.
— John McCain
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
— Tryon Edwards
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.
— Anita Loos
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
— Leonard Shlain
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
— Tom Lehrer
It's Myers-Briggs ... the MBTI, Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator.
— Gordon MacDonald
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
— Iris Murdoch
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
— Nancy Gibbs
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.
— Laurence Sterne
The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Her temperament has never been competitive; she immediately wants to disappear, to obliterate herself, to make way for them.
— Philippe Grimbert
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.
— Laurence Olivier
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.
— Michael Haneke
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.
— Sydney, Lady Morgan
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.
— Jonathan Haidt
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
— Hans Hofmann
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
— Juliana Hatfield
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
— Sigmund Freud
Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
— Alexander Mackendrick
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
— Gerald Stern
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
— Max Beerbohm
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.
— Saul Bellow
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
— Julian Barnes
We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.
— Ewart S. Grogan
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
— Christopher Lasch
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
— Luc De Clapiers
He was not a scholar, and he did not have the temperament of one who finds knowledge an end in itself.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.
— Rush Limbaugh
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
— Theodore Parker
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.
— Carolyn Brown
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ...
— Robert Harris
I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
— Carolyn Hax
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
— Bette Davis
Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.
— George Gissing
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
— David Eagleman
No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
— Christy Mathewson
Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.
— Charlotte Bronte
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
— L. Tom Perry
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
— William Hazlitt
I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
— Tom Lehrer
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
— Gautam Gambhir
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
— Nick Hornby
Passion does not translate easily into good income.
— Philip Zaleski
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[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.
— Dan Patrick
I am a fork, and I will stick you!
— Soren Kierkegaard
For human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance; Moody saw now that he could no more have
— Eleanor Catton
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
— Paul Cezanne
I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
— David Lagercrantz