Disposition Quotes

376 quotes by 274 authors

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance… — Aristotle
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create… — Aristotle
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions… — John Adams
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never… — Giacomo Casanova
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of… — Margaret Cavendish
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. — Oswald Chambers
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? — Chanakya
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. — Emmet Fox
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — Booker T. Washington
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. — Sun Tzu
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition,… — Louis Berkhof
Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state — Augustus Hopkins Strong
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here… — George Bernard Shaw
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. — Lisa Unger
Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to… — Matthias de l'Obel

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