“Happiness is a frame of mind. It is a state of thinking. It is an attitude, a headset, a mentality. Happiness is… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
A practice that is suitable for one person is not necessarily suitable for someone else, and a practice that is appropriate for… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive… — John Hall Copy Share Image
“A man ought never to trust another man’s evaluation of a third man’s disposition.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image