Inclination Quotes

221 quotes by 188 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he… — Immanuel Kant
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that… — Henry Sidgwick
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he… — Immanuel Kant
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields… — Albert Einstein
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many… — Ansel Adams
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship to… — Delbert L. Stapley
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand… — Antonin Artaud
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. — William Hazlitt
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. — Albert Einstein
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. — Christine Baranski
When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before. — Billy Corgan
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal… — Unknown Author

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