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