Andrew Murray
Theologian
"Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust."
Disposition quotes
Disposition
77 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition."
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"The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life."
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"She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous."
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"Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition."
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"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."
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"I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting."
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"If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide."
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"In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them."
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"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
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"Our actions determine our dispositions."
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"Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind."
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"When disposition wins us, the features please."
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"Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways."
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"For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that."
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"Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition."
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"The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer."
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"The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune."
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"By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition"
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"The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will."
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"A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet."
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"Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother."
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