Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

— Dwight L. Moody

Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and…

— Vincent de Paul

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the…

— Sigmund Freud

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate…

— Harry Chapin

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Never act on impulse. Plan first. Think it through. Then act.

— Luc Saint-Cyr

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want…

— Willem Dafoe

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

— Thomas Hardy

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

— Jeff Bridges

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

— Helene Deutsch

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

— Susan Moody

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions…

— Bertrand Russell