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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think. — Jonathan Evison

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition. — L. Frank Baum

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

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. — Sun Tzu

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

You owe others a happy disposition — Dennis Prager

Her anxiety was turning her usually sunny disposition into something less than hospitable. "As — Amanda Forester

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition. — George Morgan

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

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. — Mehmet Oz

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine. — Marcus Aurelius

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

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. — Paul Harris

Love your work. Such disposition prays God bless such a 'love — Priyavrat Thareja

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

The object of punishment is to ... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition. — Isaac Parker

A disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

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

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. — Mother Teresa

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. — William Hazlitt

Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people - particularly children - with respect to motivation? — Alfie Kohn

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good. — Seneca The Younger

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

Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are. — John C. Maxwell

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition — Marilyn Monroe

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition. — Steve Maraboli

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition. — Michael Helm

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. — William Arthur Ward

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

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

Can I brush your hair? she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can't live with 'em. Can't eat 'em for lunch. — Darynda Jones

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. — Francesco Guicciardini

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude. — Edward Gibbon

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

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

The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life. — Oswald Chambers

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

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. — Rene Descartes

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist. — Jonathan Haidt

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions — Thomas Aquinas

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

But memory is less disposed to compromise — Albert Camus

disposition, seemed — Jane Austen

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

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. — Dani Shapiro

A promise is an assurance. An assurance builds on optimism. Optimism is a disposition to hopefulness and firm confidence. — S.A. David

It was a spell, thrown by Sebastian Born. Pretty fce, evil disposition. — Chloe Neill

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will. — Epictetus

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

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. — Jane Austen

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

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

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

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness. — Matt Lauria

My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968) — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. — Thomas Jefferson

Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats. — Gail Carriger

Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem — Brett Brown

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. — Jean Racine

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition. — Jean Piaget

A disposition to dwell on the bright side ... is like gold to its possessor ... — Lydia Sigourney

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. — Jane Pauley

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions. — Menander

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca The Elder

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. — Chris Hayes

To dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to — Diana Gabaldon

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. — Horace

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

Andrews had probably been some innocent and hospitable person of a psychic disposition who had simply been overwhelmed by the colonizing souls. — Terry Pratchett

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself. — John Calvin

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

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

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. — Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg

A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin. — Henry Johnson Jr

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
[Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] — Ovid

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. — Bill Vaughan

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

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

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. — Oswald Chambers

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington

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

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab. — Mortimer Zuckerman

Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition. — Girdhar Joshi

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll. — Willard Van Orman Quine

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking. — Mark Simpson

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. — George Eliot

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

Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke — Robert Jackson Bennett

Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist's general disposition to vibrate — Henry James

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous. — Jane Austen

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. — Samuel Johnson

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. — Plutarch

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. — Paul Theroux

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition. — Jim Butcher