Top 468 Impulses Quotes & Sayings

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

There are 64 divine mother impulses which govern the subtle creation. These are responsible for restoring all earthly and spiritual benefits. They are simply part of one's awakened consciousness. These nine nights are celebrated to rekindle those divine impulses and celebrate the innermost depth of our lives

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Your mind is merely a servant, and it behaves well if it is given positive impulses; it behaves very poorly if it is given negative impulses. The mind assumes that it understands whatever it controls. This is the central problem in a mind-dominated world. Substituting control for understanding will only deplete your life, leaving it stripped of richness, power, and meaning. The answers to healing your life will be found in the inner strength of your heart.

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.