Quotes About Temperament

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Is she always like this?" "No, usually worse.

There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Temperamentally, he belonged to that class of poets who Taine says are vessels too weak to contain the spirit of poetry, the poets whom poetry kills, the Byrons, the Burns's, the De Mussets, the Poes.

You carry your weather with you, his father was fond of saying. Yet the day was glorious.

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.

wonder, "Would they rather have weak-willed children?"): children who won't obey, won't listen, or have temper tantrums. Some of this behavior is typical of a young child's development, as children explore and experiment to discover who they are and what they can do.

It should be understood that in medieval eyes an artist was simply a craftsman, his activities having little to do with the twentieth-century notions of self-expression, individual genius and 'artistic temperament' that nowadays cling to his profession.

Pushing a volunteer into a position for which he or she is not spiritually, emotionally, or temperamentally equipped is like trying to build a tree house in a small tree. It's bad for the tree house, yes, but it also crushes the tree—a tree that in time, with proper nurture and care, might have provided a sturdy and capable support.