Temperament Quotes · Page 6

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

— Marya Mannes

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her…

— Julian Barnes

I don't possess a filmi temperament. I do feel sometimes that it is not my cup of tea. So I stick to…

— Divya Dutta

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

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were…

— Alice Miller

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables…

— Jo Baer

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either.…

— James Lasdun

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at…

— Jerry Pinkney

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social…

— Jane Addams

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence…

— Anonymous

How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" …these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you…

— Warren Buffett

“Physical conditions play their part in all this. It is very difficult to draw the line between this and the previous cause…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards…

— T.F. Hodge

I couldn't have built the great companies I've built if I didn't have a strong temperament. And she's got a weak temperament.…

— Donald Trump

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline…

— George Lopez

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Hillary Clinton wants to be president, but she doesn't have the temperament or - as Bernie Sanders said very strongly - the…

— Donald Trump

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's…

— Barack Obama

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Chad Coleman

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Max Lucado

The temperament and habit of a person inside and outside of his/her character once he gets to his/her companion.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Laurence Olivier

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country…

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Bette Davis

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved…

— Daniel Goleman

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public…

— Juliana Hatfield

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but…

— Jeremy Renner

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society…

— Stella Chess