Temperament Quotes

I only do work that suits my temperament.

— Tabu

I wasn't really a performer by temperament,

— Tom Lehrer

I think temperament is my single greatest asset.

— Donald Trump

Music inflames temperament.

— Jim Morrison

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

— Honore de Balzac

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

— Philip Levine

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

— Norman Davies

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

— Ted Kotcheff

I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament.

— Donald Trump

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

— Isadora Duncan

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

— Harlan Cleveland

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

— Joseph Henry

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

— Nancy Gibbs

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

— Tom Lehrer

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

— W. Somerset Maugham

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly…

— Thomas Hardy

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

— Gautam Gambhir

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This,…

— Ivor Novello

I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me,…

— Jonathan Lipnicki

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We'll go here on [Donald] Trump's temperament. Trump's reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

— Chuck Todd

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

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is…

— Anonymous

The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere…

— Erich Fromm

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous…

— Tom Hodgkinson

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness.…

— Sania Mirza

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.…

— Myrtle Reed

The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic…

— Clive James

You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;…

— John Burroughs

On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which…

— William Howard Taft

I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well…

— J. D. McClatchy

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may…

— Ari Kiev

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament…

— Sydney J. Harris

There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy…

— Anne Stevenson

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One…

— E. M. Forster