Quotes About Temperament

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Well then, he said, 'I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites. Just then a horse's head looked over from the stall beyond; the ears were laid back, and the eye looked rather ill-tempered. This was a tall chestnut mare, with a long handsome neck; she looked across to me and said, So it is you have turned me out of my box; it is a very strange thing for a colt like you to come and turn a lady out of her own home.

Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.

Well, then, he said, I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites.

a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

People who flush easily become even more agitated when they feel themselves getting hot under the collar, and they quickly lose to their opponents.

It's a good thing I'm not the grouchy type, because then I might become sour and bad-tempered.

Mind you she was quite exquisite when she wasn't on a tirade.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.

He was a lively, likeable boy with a serious and almost morbid side to his nature.

Connors always had the ability to turn his anger on and off, which amazed me. I was a one-way street—mad, madder, and maddest. There must have been thousands of times, in tense situations, when a joke was on the tip of my tongue, and instead of saying something funny, I'd just let loose.

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

your attitude is not your mood.

The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?

Excesivo como casi todo en él: su cólera y sus buenos humores

temperament as one's unique, God-given (inborn) style of behavior.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

It's funny, if you've ever met my grandfather, he's probably one of the most even-keeled men you'll ever meet.

Coutinho's very calm, I think. He's very grounded and a good person.

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.