Quotes About Disposition

I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work, and people should know that.

I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Then don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.

For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By

Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

Meryl Sawyer, Half Moon Bay

Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.

One person's emotional set point can be very different from another person's, which is why we notice people who seem naturally happy or naturally glum.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

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

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.

I was feeling the height of bitchiness.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.

Take warning and begone! It's a kindness to let you have a glimpse of her genuine disposition.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

True instruction is this:--to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole.