Instincts Quotes

540 quotes by 447 authors

When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance… — Peace Pilgrim
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at… — Gerald R. Ford
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
I follow my instincts and my excitement. — Rory MacDonald
I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts. — Evander Holyfield
One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she… — Lucy Lawless
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at… — Alphonse de Lamartine
That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting… — Malcolm Gladwell
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our… — Catherine Crowe
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. — Sigmund Freud
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately… — Noel Gallagher
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's… — Carlos Ghosn
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents;… — Marla Gibbs
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. — Evelyn Glennie
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will… — Francis Ford Coppola
We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's… — Bryan Cranston

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