Disposition famous quotes
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Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
-- Andrew Murray -
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
-- Carl Jung -
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 -
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
-- Chris Hayes -
All men have an equal disposition for understanding.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius -
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 -
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
-- Edward Gibbon -
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
-- Eleanor Catton -
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
-- Emmet Fox -
A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.
-- Esther Meynell -
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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 -
You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
-- Greg Graffin -
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
-- Horace -
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
-- Jane Austen -
There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.
-- Jim Butcher -
Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
-- John C. Maxwell -
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
-- John Lydon -
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
-- John Lyly -
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
-- L. Tom Perry -
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
-- Leon Kass -
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock -
A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
-- Matt Lauria -
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 -
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 -
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
-- Ovid -
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
-- Plautus -
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
-- Plutarch -
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
-- Seneca the Elder -
Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
-- William Shakespeare -
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 -
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
-- Menander -
I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.
-- Michael Helm -
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles -
All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.
-- Lilian Katz