Top 501 Disposition Quotes & Sayings

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

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 hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

The best part of health is fine disposition

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

I'm at my country's disposition.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

It's a natural disposition for me to become muse-like in a relationship.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

You owe others a happy disposition

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.