Disposition Quotes · Page 13

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the…

— Charles Baudelaire

When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is…

— Gordon Pirie

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he…

— Plato

Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me…

— Alexander Hamilton

Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament…

— Louis of Granada

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Diogenes Laertius

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

— Thomas Aquinas

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

— Saint Augustine

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Paul Schrader

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

— Cesare Pavese

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

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Oswald Chambers

Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

— Laurens van der Post

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

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Norm MacDonald

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

— Milan Kundera

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

— John Lyly

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

— Thomas Browne

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that…

— Oswald Chambers

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness…

— Noah Feldman

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to…

— Isaac Newton

Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a…

— Charles Seymour Robinson

So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the…

— Chris Liddell

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in…

— Mother Teresa

Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the…

— Maimonides

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts…

— Karen Armstrong

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice…

— Marcus Aurelius

Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert…

— David Hume

I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power…

— John Bevere

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…

— Anthony Giddens

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

— Dalai Lama