Disposition Quotes

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Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. — Thomas Jefferson
Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours… — Pope Benedict XVI
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his… — Robert L. Reymond
There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being… — Unknown Author
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog… — Plato
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it… — Thomas Jefferson
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches… — Richard M. Nixon
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that… — Frederick Douglass
Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that â€˜it is the nature and disposition of almost… — Ezra Taft Benson
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think… — H.G. Wells
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such… — Unknown Author
To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never… — Robert Greene
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of… — Ambrose Bierce
The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward… — David O. McKay
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem — Unknown Author
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer. — George Eliot
The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A… — Ulysses S. Grant
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente

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