Urge
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
To provoke; to exasperate.
To press hard upon; to follow closely
To present in an urgent manner; to press upon attention; to insist upon; as, to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case.
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
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Urge Quotations
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
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 that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Stephen Fry
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Arnold Palmer
Urge Translations
urge in Dutch is aanwakkeren, aanvuren, aansporen
urge in French is exhortent, encourager, exhortez, exhortons
urge in Italian is premura, incoraggiare
urge in Latin is instigo
urge in Portuguese is impuso
urge in Swedish is uppmana, mana
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