Disposition Quotes - Page 6

• Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Opportunity, Challenges

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• A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Commitment, Principles

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• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  Aristotle

  Love, Hate, Mistake

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• If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

  Booker T. Washington

  Mothers Day, Mom, Attention

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.46, The Floating Press

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• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, Home

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

  Aristotle

  People, Political, Human Nature

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Aeterna Press

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• It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Doe, Bitterness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.63, GENERAL PRESS

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• In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

  Louis Berkhof

  Law, May, Moral

  Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, p.233, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  Law, Moral, Conformity

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.312, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.273, Penguin

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• There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

  Lisa Unger

  Good Life, Dark, Past

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• Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.

  Matthias de l'Obel

  Alcohol, Ale, Doe

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• When disposition wins us, the features please.

  Ovid

  Winning, Appearance, Please

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• Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Vanity, Brave

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

  John Lyly

  Ideas, Altered

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• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

  Heinrich Heine

  Peace, Crazy, Flower

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Optimistic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3101, Delphi Classics

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• 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 as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

  H. G. Wells

  Thinking, Two, Doubt

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• 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 control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.

  Robert Greene

  Self, Games, Succeed

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.152, Profile Books

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• A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Happiness, Unhappy, States

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• Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Vegetables, Ifs And

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

  William L. Shirer

  Soul, Mind, True Happiness

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• People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender. But most people are brought to where they are by circumstance, by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that wasn't anything they planned on. People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn't matter what any one of them tell you -- nobody wants to be alone.

  Dakota Fanning

  Lonely, Heart, Mean

  "Fictional character: Allie Keys". "Taken", 2002.

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• For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.

  Zosia Mamet

  Profound, Imagination, Sorrow

  "Girls Star Zosia Mamet Shares Why Your So-Called "Flaws" Make You Awesome" by Zosia Mamet, www.glamour.com. January 9, 2014.

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