Quotes About Disposition

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

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

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

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

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

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

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

He could not be a breaker, it was against his bent.

Yet what is deeper in a man than his tastes?

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.

there is no circumstance, in all the contradictions of our most mysterious nature, that appears to be more humiliating than the use we are disposed to make of those sad examples which seem purposely marked for our correction and improvement.

The pride of states, as well as of men, naturally disposes them to justify all their actions, and opposes their acknowledging, correcting, or repairing their errors and offenses.

the wisdom of the precaution is evident from the cry which has been raised against it; as that very cry betrays a disposition to question the great and essential truth which it is manifestly the object of that provision to declare.