Impetus Quotes

74 Impetus quotes by 66 unique authors

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that… — Jill Scott
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa,… — Martin Filler
I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. — Fred Rogers
That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever.… — Nicolas Bouvier
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that… — Dodie Smith
Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but… — Anais Nin
You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is… — Gena Showalter
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. — Arthur Ashe
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent… — Henri Bergson
A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted… — Edgar Cayce
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the… — Martin Filler
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal… — Richard Flanagan
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to… — John Charles Polanyi
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense… — Margaret Chan
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the… — Adolf Hitler
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The… — MAYMA
Self motivation energizes to work with impetus to make cherished dreams true. — DrAnil Kr Sinha
Self compassion provides impetus to be kind to yourself.Kindness to yourself gives inner peace, necessary for self improvement. — Dr Anil Kumar Sinha
Belief in self gives necessary impetus to confidence. It catalyzes inherent capacity to maximum and gives wings of passion to make successful outcome of endeavor. — DrAnil Kr Sinha
That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would… — Debbie Harry
Reason only controls individuals after emotion and impulse have lost their impetus — Unknown Author

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