Inclination Quotes
221 Inclination quotes by 188 unique authors
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
— Rowan Atkinson
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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
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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
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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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
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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
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Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
— Jimmy Carter
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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
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In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.
— Ian Stevenson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
— Samuel Johnson
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I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
— George Washington
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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
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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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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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what…
— Anthony Mary Claret
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