Birthright Quote by Gertrude Atherton

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

— Joseph Joubert

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their…

— Daniel Goleman

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always…

— Maxwell Maltz

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

— Maxwell Maltz

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Much of what we call our 'personalities' is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something out of…

— Stasi Eldredge

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency,…

— John Stuart Mill

“People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.”

— John Medina

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

— Wilhelm Reich

“How we interact in our world that we inhabit determines how much happiness human beings enjoy. The ego guides human beings in performing their…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Their thinking challenged many notions that were gospel in psychology and among the general public, such as the behaviorist's view that people do things…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson