Disposition Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

You owe others a happy disposition

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

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

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.

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

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

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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

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

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

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

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

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

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

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

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.

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

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

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

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

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

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

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

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

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

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

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

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

The best part of health is fine disposition

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

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

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.

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

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