Disposition Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.

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

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

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

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.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

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

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

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

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