Quotes about Temperament

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

Our actions determine our dispositions.

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.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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.

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.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.

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.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.