Quotes About Disposition

Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.

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.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

We must learn to interpret our experiences by what we know about God through His Word instead of interpreting what God is like by our experiences. If we do not ground our belief about the nature of God and His disposition to us in the Scriptures, we will reject much of what He says about Himself when we face difficulty.

It seemed as if his desire of her affection increased with his knowledge of the loss of it; and the very circumstance which should have roused his aversion, by a strange perversity of disposition, appeared to heighten his passion, and to make him think it impossible he could exist without her.

La disposition de la cour s'est modifiée souvent au gré de ses désirs, les cabinets et le poulailler ont déménagé trois fois. Toujours l'envie de démolir et de reconstruire. Ma mère : « C'est un homme de la campagne, que voulez-vous.

her disposition is not all it should be; she wants what she wants when she wants it and she is prone to make every one around her pretty miserable when she doesn't get it—but in the true sense she is not spoiled. Her fresh enthusiasm, her will to grow and learn, her endless faith in the inexhaustibility of romance, her courage and fundamental honesty—these things are not spoiled.

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

Solo me han amado de verdad en una ocasión. Simpatías, las he tenido siempre, y de todos. Ni al más ocasional le ha sido fácil ser grosero, o ser brusco, o incluso ser frío conmigo. He tenido algunas simpatías que, con mi ayuda, podría -quizá al menos- haber convertido en amor o afecto. Nunca he tenido la paciencia o la disposición de espíritu para ni siquiera desear emplear ese esfuerzo.

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.

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

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

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

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

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

I don't have a hostile disposition toward humankind per se. In fact, I feel quite warmly toward humankind. It's individual humans I have trouble with. I'm prone to a certain skepticism about people's motives and character, and this critical appraisal can harden into enduringly harsh judgment.

I" act differently when in different "moods

Love as a disposition does not primarily act on abstract principle. Instead it is a way of seeing habitually and responding to the real, separate, individual needs of each of the people we encounter in our lives every single day.

the longer everyone spent beneath the Cloud, the crabbier they got.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

the measure of a person's disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions.

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