Quotes about Disposition

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Votes: 5

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. Votes: 4

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. Votes: 4

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Votes: 4

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Votes: 4

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career and connect to my body and my spirit. Votes: 3

It is not the position, but the disposition. Votes: 2

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. Votes: 2

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you. Votes: 2

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. Votes: 2

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. Votes: 2

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. Votes: 2

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. Votes: 2

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Votes: 2

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Votes: 2

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Votes: 2

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Votes: 2

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Votes: 2

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. Votes: 2

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. Votes: 2

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. Votes: 2

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. Votes: 2

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable. Votes: 2

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. Votes: 2

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Votes: 2

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. Votes: 2

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death. Votes: 2

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh. Votes: 2

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. Votes: 2

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness. Votes: 2

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. Votes: 2

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. Votes: 2

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening. Votes: 2

You owe others a happy disposition Votes: 0

When disposition wins us, the features please. Votes: 0

A thing's innate disposition does not lie. Votes: 0

The best part of health is fine disposition Votes: 0

All men have an equal disposition for understanding. Votes: 0

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. Votes: 0

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition. Votes: 0

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Votes: 0

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. Votes: 0

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine. Votes: 0

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition Votes: 0

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. Votes: 0

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition. Votes: 0

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. Votes: 0

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition. Votes: 0

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. Votes: 0

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice. Votes: 0

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. Votes: 0

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others. Votes: 0

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. Votes: 0

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother. Votes: 0

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition. Votes: 0

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet. Votes: 0

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition. Votes: 0

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. Votes: 0

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. Votes: 0

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man. Votes: 0

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will. Votes: 0

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust. Votes: 0

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences. Votes: 0

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. Votes: 0

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively. Votes: 0

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness. Votes: 0

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. Votes: 0

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. Votes: 0

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. Votes: 0

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... Votes: 0

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing. Votes: 0

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition. Votes: 0

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition. Votes: 0

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. Votes: 0

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. Votes: 0

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. Votes: 0

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab. Votes: 0

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. Votes: 0

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. Votes: 0

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions. Votes: 0

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. Votes: 0

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. Votes: 0

I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting. Votes: 0

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. Votes: 0

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Votes: 0

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. Votes: 0

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. Votes: 0

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament. Votes: 0

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude. Votes: 0

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. Votes: 0

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something. Votes: 0

Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state Votes: 0

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. Votes: 0

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. Votes: 0

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! Votes: 0

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity. Votes: 0

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere. Votes: 0

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. Votes: 0

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good. Votes: 0

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. Votes: 0

This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition. Votes: 0

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Votes: 0

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. Votes: 0

Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats. Votes: 0

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. Votes: 0

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition. Votes: 0

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition. Votes: 0

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. Votes: 0

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. Votes: 0

Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families. Votes: 0

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. Votes: 0

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. Votes: 0

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? Votes: 0

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character. Votes: 0

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself. Votes: 0

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. Votes: 0

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. Votes: 0

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong. Votes: 0

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition Votes: 0

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. Votes: 0

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. Votes: 0

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition Votes: 0

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Votes: 0

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. Votes: 0

Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions. Votes: 0

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. Votes: 0

Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family. Votes: 0

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. Votes: 0

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. Votes: 0

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. Votes: 0

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. Votes: 0

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. Votes: 0

My love for you grows daily, and all it takes is exposure to your sunny disposition, coupled with watering it with coffee. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power. Votes: 0

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority." Votes: 0

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. Votes: 0

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem Votes: 0

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing Votes: 0

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute. Votes: 0

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible. Votes: 0

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things. Votes: 0

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. Votes: 0

Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen. Votes: 0

I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding. Votes: 0

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;So wealth will be with those of a like disposition. Votes: 0

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound Votes: 0

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Votes: 0

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it. Votes: 0

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous. Votes: 0

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. Votes: 0

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills. Votes: 0

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory. Votes: 0

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. Votes: 0

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. Votes: 0

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature. Votes: 0

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters. Votes: 0

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it. Votes: 0

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. Votes: 0

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice Votes: 0

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Votes: 0

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. Votes: 0

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself. Votes: 0

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel. Votes: 0

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed. Votes: 0

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating. Votes: 0

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us. Votes: 0

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential. Votes: 0

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping. Votes: 0

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey. Votes: 0

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing. Votes: 0

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education. Votes: 0

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality. Votes: 0

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down. Votes: 0

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction. Votes: 0

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. Votes: 0

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state Votes: 0

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well. Votes: 0

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary. Votes: 0

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute. Votes: 0

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?" Votes: 0

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind Votes: 0

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not. Votes: 0

To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on. Votes: 0

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances. Votes: 0

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him. Votes: 0

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us. Votes: 0

The establishment of our new lawful immigration system then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain. Votes: 0

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul. Votes: 0

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life. Votes: 0

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. Votes: 0

Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition. Votes: 0

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself. Votes: 0

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition. Votes: 0

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on. Votes: 0

Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last. Votes: 0

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience. Votes: 0

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias. Votes: 0

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves. Votes: 0

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons. Votes: 0

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits. Votes: 0

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites in proportion as their love of justice is above thir rapacity Votes: 0

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience. Votes: 0

For me especially, I always have a very cheery disposition and that's how I've always come off. So I forget that doesn't really allow me to have a bad mood. Votes: 0

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end. Votes: 0

The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking... Votes: 0

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission. Votes: 0

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there. Votes: 0

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. Votes: 0

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition Votes: 0

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it. Votes: 0

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility. Votes: 0

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness. Votes: 0

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Votes: 0

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. Votes: 0

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established. Votes: 0

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. Votes: 0

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. Votes: 0

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved. Votes: 0

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it. Votes: 0

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb. Votes: 0

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. Votes: 0

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God. Votes: 0

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader. Votes: 0

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog. Votes: 0

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. Votes: 0

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action. Votes: 0

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. Votes: 0

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. Votes: 0

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living. Votes: 0

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine. Votes: 0

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor. Votes: 0

In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases. Votes: 0

The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board. Votes: 0

The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships. Votes: 0

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts. Votes: 0

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness. Votes: 0

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. Votes: 0

We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe. Votes: 0

Can I brush your hair?” she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can’t live with ’em. Can’t eat ’em for lunch. Votes: 0

The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it. Votes: 0

Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so. Votes: 0

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. Votes: 0