Disposition Quotes - Page 2

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

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.

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

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

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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

Our actions determine our dispositions.

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

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

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

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

You owe others a happy disposition

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

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

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous 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.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.