Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections,… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors;… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?"… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy 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
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains: When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to… — Richmond Akhigbe Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
