Disposition quotes

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

#Humility #Soul #Disposition

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Confidence #Hopeful #Disposition

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Prejudice #Reason #Disposition

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
-- Carl Jung

#Childhood #Individual #Disposition

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.
-- Charles Darwin

#Weight #Facts #Disposition

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
-- Chris Hayes

#Kind #Authority #Disposition

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius

#Men #Understanding #Disposition

You owe others a happy disposition
-- Dennis Prager

#Disposition

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
-- Edward Everett

#Action #Made #Disposition

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
-- Edward Gibbon

#History #Instruction #Disposition

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
-- Eleanor Catton

#Men #Evaluation #Disposition

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
-- Emmet Fox

#Attitude #Healthy #Disposition

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.
-- Esther Meynell

#Horse #Disposition #Contemptuous

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Self #Disposition #Interest

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Desire #Annoying #Disposition

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
-- Greg Graffin

#World #Disposition

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
-- Horace

#Climate #Disposition

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
-- Jane Austen

#Ridiculous #Disposition #Lively

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.
-- Jim Butcher

#Disposition

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Doe #Disposition #Position

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
-- John Lydon

#Common Sense #Common #Disposition

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
-- John Lyly

#Ideas #Disposition

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
-- L. Tom Perry

#Creation #Disposition #Temperament

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

#Disposition #Machinery

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#Responsible #Born #Disposition

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Disposition #Genuine #Invincible

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
-- Matt Lauria

#Character #Certain #Disposition

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.
-- Mehmet Oz

#Weight #Disposition #Feels

Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
-- Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

#Faith #Perfect #Disposition

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
-- Orison Swett Marden

#Needs #Welcome #Disposition

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
-- Ovid

#Savages #Pleasure #Disposition

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
-- Plautus

#Cheerful #Disposition #Advantage

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
-- Plutarch

#Character #Mind #Disposition

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
-- Seneca the Elder

#Birth #Disposition #Born

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
-- William Shakespeare

#Life #Cheerful #Disposition

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
-- Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

#Mean #Disposition #Scholar

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
-- Menander

#Communication #Evil #Disposition

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.
-- Michael Helm

#Empathy #Disposition #Ifs

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

#Moderation #Pleasure #Disposition

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.
-- Lilian Katz

#Children #Born #Disposition