Disposition Quotes

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.

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

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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