Temperament

(249 votes)   Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(245 votes)   A person's fate is their own temper.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(239 votes)   Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(163 votes)   Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

John Burroughs
1837-1921, American Naturalist, Author

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(146 votes)   Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(96 votes)   Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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