Quotes About Disposition

It wasn't that she couldn't do the work. She just didn't like doing it.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

One of the greatest accomplishments of Western civilization is the development of the scientific method and the scientific disposition, which entail the development of falsifiable hypotheses about the world and the unwillingness to take unverified and untheorized claims about the world as truth, simply because someone states that they are true.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

One must, in addition, evince a favorable disposition toward the party regime of the general secretary, usefulness to the Stalin organization.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

Tener aventuras es algo natural para algunas personas - dijo Ana serenamente - O se tienen, o no se tienen los dotes para vivirlas. Ana de Avonlea

For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature.

Mrs. Lynde may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did

I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. [in review of a book]

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition. William Hazlitt, 'On the Knowledge of Character' (1822)

There can be more genuine fellowship among those who share the same disposition than among those who share the same beliefs, especially if that disposition is toward kindness and generosity.

Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is also a disposition that can be chosen and cultivated, an outlook toward life that manifests itself in actions—it is an ethic.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Conrad would never; it wasn't his style.

To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.

A disposition to trust in ourselves is part of our sinful nature. It sometimes takes a major crisis, or at least a moderate one, to turn us toward the Lord. A mark of Christian maturity is to continually trust the Lord in the minutiae of daily life. If we learn to trust God in the minor adversities, we will be better prepared to trust Him in the major ones.