51 Disposition Quotes for You to Enjoy

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur Ward

Day Disposition Sunny Match Cloudy

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington

Happiness Myself Happy Whatever Situation Disposition Our Circumstance Find Determined Misery Part Cheerful Learned Greater Am May Unhappiness

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza

War Confidence Justice Peace Mind Disposition State Virtue Benevolence Absence

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung

Truth Psychic Collective Resting Disposition Think Society Relation Broad Our Shall Bears Individual Unconscious Get Personal Same Psyche Which Inherited Nearest Conscious Universal Basis

Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them. Ellen G. White

Will Seen Met Discouraged Disposition Aid Others Favor Through Disappointed Leaning Always Been Waited Yield Expect Expectations Expecting Same Children Them Whole Helpless Lives

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson

Happiness Life Nature Knowledge Will Own Human Nature Disposition Changing Seek He His Efforts Human Anything Fruitless Little Who Waste

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Aristotle

Character Disposition Virtue Virtuous Statesman Moral Citizens Moral Character Performance Namely Most Fellow Fellow Citizens His Anxious Produce Certain Actions

Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good. Nick Saban

Good You Disposition Once Total Staying About Get Need

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Orison Swett Marden

Good Nature Power Reputation Disposition Others Kind Charitable Unselfish Perfume Ready Than Any Turn Your Sweeter Roses

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese

Strength Will Power Single Own Disposition Increase Ounce Only Cannot

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Friedrich Nietzsche

Disposition Sign No-One Annoy Well Equally Anxious Just Desire Harm

Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. Harold Pinter

Theatre Political Problems Own Disposition Air Characters Must Cost Entirely Objectivity Allowed His Author Taste Essential Confine Different Cannot Them Breathe Prejudice Avoided Satisfy Set Presents

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. Oswald Chambers

Character Christ Disposition Saint Manifested Means Jesus Jesus Christ

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history. Andrew Breitbart

History Racism Black Nation White Disposition Our Guilty Given Mainstream Mainstream Media Institutional Make Acceptable Continue Lines America Story Story Lines While Against Ignored Whites Choose Appear Media

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. Claude Adrien Helvetius

Love Justice Happy Humanity Strong Inspire Honor Men Disposition Virtue Honors Strong Desire General Only Small Mention Glory Same Esteem Which Them Riches Whom Desire Number

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. Giacomo Casanova

Good Natural Disposition Good Reason Through Never Mere Suppose Make Although Readily Fresh Always Break Acquaintances Them Reason

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride. Rabbit Maranville

Work Time Good Broken Pride Pay Disposition Everything Has-Been Pretty Pretty Good Both Risky Joints Ankles Between Most Got Quarter Been Legs Century Hard Baseball Playing Fractured

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. Aristotle

For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual. Celeste Ng

Life Good Son Book Moon Three First Reading Before Disposition Sleeper Babies Seemed Insisted Ritual He Part Goodnight Like Most Became Bedtime His Years Hearing Help Whole Specifically

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me. David Sanborn

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. Esther Dyson

At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future disposition of his soul. Traditionally, after he dies, a search party of senior monks would set out to locate his new incarnation, who is most often a boy toddler, who goes on to be trained as a monk and a leader. Evan Osnos

Future Soul Age Leader Party Disposition Locate Range Out Would He Prospects New Most Boy His Trained Discuss Begun Goes Dies Often Senior After Eighty Lama Toddler Incarnation Who Search Dalai Monk Dalai Lama Monks Set

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