Quotes About Disposition

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

He who is of 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.

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.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Chaque livre écrit est le produit d'un esprit humain dans une disposition particulière. Additionnez tous les livres, et vous obtenez la somme totale de l'humanité. Chaque fois que je lisais un bon livre, j'avais l'impression de lire une sorte de carte au trésor, et le trésor vers lequel elle me menait était en fait moi-même.

The first word...translates an affective state.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.

In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. —AUGUSTE COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, Leçon 48

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Beauty does not depend on external details; Beauty reflects the inner disposition, the internal state of one's being.

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

The control center of your life is your attitude.

Here, and everywhere, psychoanalysis must take the paradoxical position that the Child is Father to the Man; that Primal Father was once a boy, and, if there is anything to psychoanalysis, owes his disposition to his boyhood.

The precept, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," breeds in us most often the disposition to see one's neighbor merely as a poor imitation of oneself, and to hate him if he proves different.

The spiritual disposition of a poet inclines to catastrophe.

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

The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life.