Impelled Quotes

65 Impelled quotes by 62 unique authors

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be… — Alphonsus Liguori
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the… — Edgar Cayce
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to… — Susan B. Anthony
At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities. — Clarence H. Burns
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… — Charles Darwin
We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going… — Derek Tangye
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is… — Wallace D. Wattles
Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful… — John Steinbeck
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person… — Albert Einstein
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own… — Ludwig von Mises
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,… — Unknown Author
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely… — Laurence Binyon
The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to… — Kent Nerburn

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