Temperament Quotes

I couldn't have built the great companies I've built if I didn't have a strong temperament. And she's got a weak temperament. She [Hillary Clinton ] is a weak person.

I have much better judgment than Hillary Clinton does. There's no question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has, you know?

I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament.

I have one of the great temperaments.

I think I have a great temperament.

I have a temperament where I know how to win.

I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament.

Hillary Clinton wants to be president, but she doesn't have the temperament or - as Bernie Sanders said very strongly - the judgment to be president. She does not have the judgment.

I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament.

[ Hillary Clinton] is the one who has a terrible temperament.

I'm honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has, because we know how to win.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.

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

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

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.

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

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

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

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

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the temperament to be president.

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

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.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.