Disposition Quotes

Disposition Quote of the day

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.

Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.