Top 111 Temperament Quotes

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I’ve supported a lot of folks with a lot of points of view. But I have concerns about Mr. Trump‘s temperament. Some of the things he’s said about women, Muslims and religious freedom, I just can’t support.

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament – and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.

I have a theatrical temperament. I’m not interested in the middle road – maybe because everyone‘s on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns – and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

I don’t have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

I love sports, but I never had the temperament for it.

With a painter‘s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn’t too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

I have this reporter‘s temperament still in me – I thrive under pressure.

I concluded that Donald Trump lacked the temperament, the judgment and the self-discipline to heal the divisions in our country – which are very real – and to be commander in chief.

With Donald J. Trump’s arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who ‘represent‘ a trend or ideology.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

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.

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

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they’re trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

American Pharoah loved human contact. He was a very sweet horse and is still very sweet. He loves people, will put his head in your lap. I’m probably closer to that horse because of his temperament.

When you’re writing plays, it’s possible to believe you don’t have any real world skill. When you’re adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don’t know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It’s not all about temperament.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called ‘knowledge explosion‘ was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It’s the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

I don’t have the temperament of being a director.

Music was more fitted to my temperament. If you were feeling sad and down in the boxing gym, you’d get hit more than you would on a normal day. If you’re feeling sad and down and you’re sitting in front of a computer with beats, you might make the best song you’ve ever made.

I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.

I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I’ve built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out – I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: ‘Trump: The Art of the Deal.’

Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

I’m a conservative kind of person. I don’t think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

Kobe has a different temperament than me. We’re both competitive, but he was much more outspoken. I would let anything roll off me. Nothing bothered me. I never complained.

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.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

I am always suspicious of those who impose ‘rules‘ on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

My dad, his temperament is a little worse than mine, at times.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

That has always been my character – on the pitch I have a strong temperament, but off the pitch I’m more serene, reflective. I manage to separate out those two things.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I think it takes a unique temperament for a lawyer who wants to go to a start-up, because generally, by nature, it’s a high-risk environment.

The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn’t be more stark.

When I’m looking for a leader who’s gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who’s gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn’t care less about that leader’s temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

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.

Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

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

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

I have a happy temperament: a bit like ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.’

For the record, I was heartbroken when my brother Jeb dropped out of the race for president, not just because he’s my brother but because he was clearly the best-qualified candidate, in both experience and temperament to lead the nation.

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

I don’t have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

At the heart of ‘The Famished Road’ is a philosophical conundrum – for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody’s reality is subjective; it’s conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what’s happened to you.

I don’t find a reason to be on Twitter or Facebook. This is my temperament, and I can’t put myself out 24/7 out there. However, I am not judgmental about others being there.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

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

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment.

Donald Trump represents a threat both to the party and to the country. I believe he makes the world far more dangerous, I believe he puts America’s economy in jeopardy. And his temperament is totally unsuited for the presidency.

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it’s truly awesome and very powerful.

This industry is in a hurry to gain solid results. They expect a hero or a heroine to get intimate on the first day of meeting for the good of the film, which is against my temperament. I draw a line, which the industry doesn’t like.

To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man’s-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.

I stopped performing because I don’t have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn’t want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn’t want to do it.

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

I don’t cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don’t just get up and sing the day after one of those.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I’ve seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

I don’t think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I’m not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it’s not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

Quite frankly, I don’t want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president’s office.

I don’t have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I’d much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.

There’s a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.

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.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

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.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me, working out is more about keeping my temperament great. Jujitsu and lifting keep me very even.

My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I’m also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident – they don’t call it the global village for nothing.

I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I’ve ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just falls over everyone.

Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I’ll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.

Mr. Sessions’ conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes – lost my temper, did silly things – but little by little, I’ve gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

At any debate, you want viewers to have learned something they didn’t know before – whether it’s about the candidates‘ temperament, policies, or preparedness for office.

My parents’ generation didn’t have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins – a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

I’d love to direct a film, but I don’t think I have the temperament for it. I’m very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

Well, a daughter is someone you’ve grown up with, right? So you know her temperament, you know what makes her angry and how to deal with that person. You’re meeting your daughter-in-law when she is an adult already and you don’t quite know what her temperament is like, so it takes time to gel.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called ‘a state of middle temperament.’ Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.