Urge Quotes
682 quotes by 585 authors
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others…
— Arthur Ashe
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority…
— Alfred Adler
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion…
— David Bohm
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Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
— Paul D. Boyer
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We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making…
— Dick Cheney
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
— Deepak Chopra
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I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of…
— Kofi Annan
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does…
— Stephen Levine
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is…
— Phyllis Diller
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The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend…
— Barbara Jordan
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I…
— Aberjhani
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next…
— Maria Montessori
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Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious…
— Maria Montessori
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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not…
— Christian Morgenstern
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To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have received and declare…
— Robert D. Hales
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