Disposition Quotes

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

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

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

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

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

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

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

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

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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

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

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

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

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

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

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.

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

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

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

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

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

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

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

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

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.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

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

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

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

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

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

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

You owe others a happy disposition

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.