Inclination Quotes

221 quotes by 192 authors

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest.… — Rowan Atkinson
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive… — Mikhail Bakunin
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the… — Edmund Burke
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. — Jimmy Carter
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to… — Henry David Thoreau
In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide. — Ian Stevenson
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...… — Thomas Aquinas
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies.… — Clarence Darrow
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard… — John C. Maxwell
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you… — Samuel Johnson
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. — Albert Einstein
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. — George Washington
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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