As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
Government is the right disposition of things.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.
I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.
