Impulses Quotes

287 quotes by 240 authors

A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the… — David O. McKay
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has… — Robert Bly
Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a… — Benjamin Netanyahu
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. — Margaret Fuller
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are… — Frederic Bastiat
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood… — John Steinbeck
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall
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
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
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
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
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone… — Edgar Allan Poe

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