Top 412 Inclination Quotes & Sayings

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

Humanity's inclination to be kind during the coronavirus crisis is an unprecedented, uplifting demonstration of solidarity.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends.

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

I am myself by inclination an investigator.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.