Impulses Quotes

287 quotes by 240 authors

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. — Luc de Clapiers
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations,… — Odilon Redon
Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man;… — Sathya Sai Baba
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light… — Alan Seeger
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us… — Roy Baumeister
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen,… — Mark Kurlansky
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make… — Eric Maisel
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our… — Richard Schmid
To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to… — Walt Disney
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by… — Marlon Brando
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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 content… — Sigmund Freud
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. — Daniel Goleman
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them. — Mason Cooley
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to… — Willem Dafoe
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. — Albert Einstein
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right,… — Jim Elliot
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. — Sydney J. Harris

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