Impulse Quotes

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

Strong, Him, Anyone

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Hurt, Live

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude, Kindness, Feeling

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

Feels, Soar, Consent

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Heart, Left, Behind

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Aldous Huxley

Love, Almost, Cruelty

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James

Sympathy, Away, Individual

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Truth, Law

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

Great, Done, Together

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

Happy, May, Study

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Love, Human, Reality

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth

Good, Evil, May

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
Abraham Maslow

Health, Human, Growth

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando

Life, Maturity, Acting

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Selfish, Give

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell

Life, Person, Example

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana

Talk, Satisfy, Primary

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian

Wait, Second, Pass

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
Gordon Ramsay

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Ovid

Reason, Instinct, Formerly

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer

God, Stars, Sky

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Augustus Hare

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
Ray Manzarek

History, Yourself, Through

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury

Love, Work, Nature

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
Daisaku Ikeda

Education, Peace, Help

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Annie Lennox

Life, Hurt, Mother

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Perfect, Sometimes

A first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre Corneille

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Zi

Bravery, Stay, Guidance

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