Disposition Quotes - Page 23

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Matter, Life Is, Position

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• There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

  Edmund Burke

  Moving, Fall, Race

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

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• Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

  Plutarch

  Men, Vices, Savages

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• The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Morning, People, Solitude

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• The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

  William Dean Howells

  Giving, Water, Cups

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

  Robert Southey

  Writing, Personality, Poet

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1853). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.226

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• Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

  Ovid

  Way, Treats, Thousand

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• Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bird, Might, Taught

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• What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Shopping, People

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• I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

  Menander

  Communication, Evil

  Found in Dubner's edition of his Fragments appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca, p. 102, line 101,

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• The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Mind, Gauges

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• Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

  Thomas Lickona

  Character, Challenges, Vices

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• The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

  Susan Cain

  Party, Animal, Rushing

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Doe, Position

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Developing The Leader Within You Lunch & Learn”, p.26, BookBaby

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• Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for one had never been spoiled with smiles. I found it very pleasant! ... I was beginning to understand that with Americans smiling was, as with healthy infants, a natural need. And my reaction was to respond in the same way.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Gay, Healthy, United States

  SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA (1969). “ONLY ONE YEAR”

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• Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Wrinkles, Unnecessary

  Helen Rowland (2017). “The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon”, p.8, Litres

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• When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dog, Children, Moving

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.

  Harrison Ford

  Team, Skills, Effort

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Wrestling, Hands

  Source: genius.com

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• I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Said, Fretting

  Charlie Munger's investment advice at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Love Is, Two

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