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Disposition Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
- Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so…
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
- 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…
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
- 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…
- It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
- Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
- [F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
More Disposition Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as… — 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… — Giacomo Casanova
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — 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… — 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… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin