Quotes About Disposition

the full manifestation of the power of this death in your disposition and conduct depends upon the measure in which the Holy Spirit imparts the power of the death of Christ.

The fickle disposition of the multitude almost reduces those who have experience of it to despair; for it is governed solely by emotions, and not by reason.

I considered that my nature and disposition had, as it were, a kind of kinship and connection with truth.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

to have faith—that a lover would be constant and life clement—this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations.

Want oú compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The Spirit-filled believer will hate iniquity, injustice, and impurity; and he will militate against all of them. Because Paul hated the world, the world hated Paul. We, too, need this disposition of opposition.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

Humans and most animal species make an unhappy marriage, for one or more of many possible reasons: the animal's diet, growth rate, mating habits, disposition, tendency to panic, and several distinct features of social organization. Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans, by virtue of compatibility on all those separate counts.

As a result of quarrels, blows, furtive and poorly chosen readings, my disposition became taciturn, wild, my head began to be spoiled, and I lived like a true werewolf.

Hard to rouse and hard to restrain: that had been a constant trait in my character.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

Japanese goldfish, With your gossamer tail, You are the loveliest creature I have ever seen. Japanese kitten, Put your tongue back in where it belongs And go away. I know exactly what you are thinking.

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

The control center of your life is your attitude.

Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

Whatever the attitude, so is the response.