Quotes About Disposition

Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who is not, not.

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting

to dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to

The good Avvocato, finding you better disposed, will receive you with more confidence. For that matter I, too, ten months ago, had few hopes of you, I tell you in all honesty, all the more so because today my hopes are great.' 'Oh

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility

Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence, your sophistication, your humour…

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state.

but if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.

An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will.

Up to now in the West none of the apostles of stabilization and petrification has succeeded in wiping out the individuals' innate disposition to think and to apply to all problems the yardstick of reason. This alone, and no more, history and philosophy can assert in dealing with doctrines that claim to know exactly what the future has in store for mankind.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.

A lot goes into an attitude—but a lot more comes out of it!

Critic Samuel Johnson advised that "he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove.

Influencing others is a matter of disposition, not position.

My wife and I are terribly unhappy together, but we have three beautiful children, and we try to keep things going. I do what I have to do, like everyone else, and one of the things I have to do is to serve my wife breakfast in bed. I try to fix her a nice breakfast, because this sometimes improves her disposition, which is generally terrible.

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