Disposition Quote by Winston Churchill Download Open image “A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.” — Winston Churchill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disposition Hope Hopeful Prophet Qualifications Sole
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the responsiveness of the hearers. The variable is not in the presence or absence or the relative quality and force of the prophetic voices. The prophet grows in stature as people respond to his message...It is the… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before… — Joseph Addison Copy Share
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of… — Charles James Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
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… — Oswald Chambers 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; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
