personal disposition Quotes

Personality, too, is destiny.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Some of us are more favorably disposed than others.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

No matter how beautiful you are you, if you don't know how to handle yourself, it will just show... You don't have to have perfect features... It's really just your disposition.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.