Quotes about Disposition

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition. There is enough clarity to illumine the elect and enough darkness to humble them. There is enough darkness to render the reprobate sightless and enough clarity to condemn them and to render them inexcusable.

If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

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.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.

Influencing others is a matter of disposition, not position.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.