Quotes About Disposition

They did this because God had made them favorably disposed toward the Israelites. How did

Not only thinking and feeling are determined by man's character structure but also his actions.

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

persons of choleric dispositions and limited intelligences are apt to become rude.

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 greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

It's a natural disposition for me to become muse-like in a relationship.

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

His ego was just too big, almost as if he were genetically predisposed to be an ass.

I took good care not to tell anybody that I had resolved never to love without restraint a man who would not return this love in full; such was my disposition that my heart would have belonged entirely and without reserve to a husband who loved only me.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

The ancient sages said, 'He who is angry—it is the same as if he worshiped idols.' They also said, 'One who yields to anger—if he is a sage, his wisdom departs from him; if he is a prophet, his prophetic gift departs from him.' Those of an irate disposition—their life is not worth living.

Strident minorities, acting on the growing disposition to censor their opponents, ensure that the deeper the question, the more likely it is to be settled by shallow arguments.

have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

The state of California itself was now just like me - a free-spirited liberal with a mostly sunny disposition teetering on the edge of financial ruin. (Natalie Teeger)