Disposition Quotes
376 quotes by 264 authors
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It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each…
— Bernard Lazare
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Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
— Laurens van der Post
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Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their…
— William Henry Ashley
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A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
— Alphonsus Liguori
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...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The best part of health is fine disposition
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections…
— Sir Fulke Greville
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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing…
— Diogenes
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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor...
— Lydia Sigourney
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For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and…
— John Tillotson
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One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not…
— Barbara Tuchman
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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
— Leon Kass
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If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other…
— Oswald Chambers
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Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
— Carl Jung
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The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
— John James Ingalls
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
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