Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
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.
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
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.
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.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. . . In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.