Quotes About Disposition

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

Habits form a second nature.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.