Quotes about Temperament
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
— Oscar Wilde
Our actions determine our dispositions.
— Aristotle
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Tom Lehrer
All temperaments can serve as the material for ruin or for salvation. We must learn to see that our temperament is a gift of God, a talent with which we must trade until He comes.
— Thomas Merton
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
— George Eliot
Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
— Napoleon Hill
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
— Dale Carnegie
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
— William Hazlitt