Disposition Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

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

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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