Inclination Quotes

221 Inclination quotes by 188 unique authors

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to… — Henri Nouwen
In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to… — Mehmet Oz
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction… — Pope John Paul II
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. — Plautus
Taste may change, but inclination never. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. — George Saunders
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law,… — Sonia Sotomayor
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does… — Alexis de Tocqueville
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well. — Gary Vaynerchuk
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it... — Patrick O'Brian
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but itâ€™s really a gift. A world that… — Chris Van Allsburg
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for… — Georgia Byng
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination… — Charles Dickens
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary… — Nathaniel Branden
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or… — Jonathan Edwards
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. — George Eliot
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer

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