Top 80 Temperament Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness – but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

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.’

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.

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I can look at a photo and tell you about your child’s temperament and personality. All that scans in seconds.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level.

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

With the hugely talented women I’ve worked with or observed, it’s not a question about temperament or ego; it’s a question about getting it right. If they’ve got a reputation for being difficult it’s usually because they just don’t suffer fools.

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.

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.

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

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

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.

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.

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

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

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.

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

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It’s unavoidable; that’s my temperament.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

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.

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.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament – not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don’t want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

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

I wasn’t really a performer by temperament.

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

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire’s job. That doesn’t mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today’s managers a bit differently.

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it’s also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Too much attention and hoopla doesn’t agree with my temperament.

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.

I have a temperament that doesn’t adapt well to politics. It’s because I speak my mind so much.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 don’t have the temperament of being a director.

There are a number of issues that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Trump on. I question whether he’s got the temperament to serve as president.