Disposition Quotes - Page 24

• The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

  Edward Gibbon

  People, Rebellious, Vain

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• If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Progress, Would Be, Use

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

  Vance Havner

  Needs, Bitter, Revival

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• Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.

  David A. Bednar

  Fashion, Honesty, Integrity

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• Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.

  George S. Patton

  Staff, Function, Ability

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• It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

  John Calvin

  Opportunity, Names, Treacherous

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)”, p.79, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Hero, Friendly, Sage

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• Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
  [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

  Ovid

  Savages, Pleasure, Said

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• The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Believe, Men, Evil

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.765, Wesleyan University Press

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• As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.

  Henry Fielding

  Fall, Use, World

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1527, Delphi Classics

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• ...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Giving, Deeds

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