Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 628 authors

Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of… — Ellen Willis
Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do… — Marc Gafni
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is… — Harry S. Truman
Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many… — David Dunn
Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As… — Ernest Renan
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor… — Carl Jung
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the… — Winston Churchill
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses — B.K.S. Iyengar
When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside… — Dan Millman
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm

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