Quotes About Disposition

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

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

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

Ruth's] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." The first First Lady's philosophy

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

The child is father to the man," and with such training, whatever may be his natural disposition, it cannot well be otherwise than that, on arriving at maturity, the sufferings and miseries of the slave will be looked upon with entire indifference.

It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and that the victims are the result of a conflict that somebody else started. "[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to the lower classes is what is new.

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.

Well, the earring tells us he was bohemian," she explained. "An earring on a man meant the same then as it does now—that the wearer was a little more fashionably racy than the average person. Drake and Raleigh were both painted with earrings. It was their way of announcing that they were of an adventurous disposition.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

Che non si dica che non ho detto niente di nuovo: la disposizione delle materie è nuova.

It ain't my cup of meat.

Understanding the disposition of your enemy is one of the most necessary elements in conquering him. – Adara Nidal

From time to time, I'm a jerk.

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

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.