The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. — Michael Dolan Copy Share Image
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt,… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness,… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most –… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
“There are many different paths to superior outcomes in business. You will have to find your own path, one that suits your… — Frank Slootman Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
