Quotes About Disposition

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

The Voice of Christ: My child, this is the disposition which you should have if you wish to walk with Me. You should be as ready to suffer as to enjoy. You should as willingly be destitute and poor as rich and satisfied.

Moreover, virtue is not concerned with the amount of pleasure experienced by the external sense, as this depends on the disposition of the body; what matters is how much the interior appetite is affected by that pleasure.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. His name is Loki. He is handsome and well made, but of a very fickle mood and most evil disposition. He is of the giant race, but forced himself into the company of the gods, and seems to take pleasure in bringing them into difficulties, and in extricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill.

I'm really a nice guy, aren't I? Not many people know that.

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

What really matters is what you like, not what you are like

Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition

SIN is that tendency or disposition to sin that we inherit from Adam. SINS are the specific acts of sin that we commit as the result of our tendency to sin.

The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester house, whose girls had a saturnine disposition in his opinion, as if imported from Maine or other gloom-loving provinces.

But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

But then what should I have done with you, Nina, how should I have disposed of the store of sadness that had gradually accumulated as a result of our seemingly carefree, but really hopeless meetings?

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

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