Inclination Quotes

221 Inclination quotes by 188 unique authors

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your… — James Clavell
It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an… — Sue Monk Kidd
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it. — Charles Dickens
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to… — Charles Spurgeon
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal… — James Boswell
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool? — Charles Portis
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity — Megan McCafferty
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it… — Stefan Zweig
It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them. — Lauren Myracle
It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most… — Alyson Noel
Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have… — Jeaniene Frost
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on… — Jose Saramago
You're a disaster for us, Clary! You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadowhunter! You don't know how to think like… — Cassandra Clare
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit… — Novalis
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your… — Dante Alighieri

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