Quotes About Disposition

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

Action is character.

It is his way, and you must take him as you find him.

jovial perfectionist

Some deep disappointment in early life had soured its disposition, and it had declared war upon the whole world.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend.

La prima impressione ci trova ben disposti, e l'uomo è fatto in modo che gli si possono far credere le storie più avventurose; ma queste si imprimono subito così tenacemente che guai a chi voglia rimuoverle o cancellarle!

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

Good temper is an estate for life.

There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

He could be a complete bastard when he wanted to be — which was most of the time, now I come to think about it.

On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.

Don't shut your eyes, don't give in to illusions, I will never change. My need to keep up an uninterrupted exchange of letters with you comes not from love but from my unhappy disposition

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

For the past several years, he'd avoided romantic relationships that could gut him in the end. That whole not-sleeping, feeling the deep ache that came from failure, enduring the sudden loneliness of being rejected…it was bad for his disposition.

The disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours'. Being the opposite of xenophobia I propose to call this state of mind oikophobia, by which I mean (stretching the Greek a little) the repudiation of inheritance and home.

Me trouvant imbibé préalablement de larges doses de cinéma je me trouvais mentalement à peu près dispos

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

She was either temperamental, meaning short-tempered and unhappy, or she was melancholy, meaning listless and unhappy.