Disposition Quotes

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

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

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

I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.

I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.