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Our actions determine our dispositions.
— Aristotle.
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
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
— Thomas Jefferson
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
— Sun Tzu
The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
— William Hazlitt
Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions.
— The New Yorker
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.
— Gregory Of Nazianzus
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.
— James Hervey
The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
— Thomas More
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
— Francis Bacon
A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.
— Michael Josephson
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
— Isabel Burton
Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.
— Dante Alighieri
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
— Robert Boyle
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
— Edward Gibbon
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.
— Thomas Browne
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.
— John Raleigh Mott
know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.
— Andrew Murray
Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
— Laurens Van Der Post
She has a taste for unusual women, with strong noses and doll eyes and creative dispositions.
— Lena Dunham
Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married
It is an honor that I dream not of — William Shakespeare
It is an honor that I dream not of — William Shakespeare
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
— Hugh Blair
People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.
— Ufuoma Apoki
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
How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.
— M T Anderson
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
— Michel De Montaigne