Disposition Quotes

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

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

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

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

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.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

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

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

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

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

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

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

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

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

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.

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

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.

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

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.

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