Disposition Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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