Inclination Quotes

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

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

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

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

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

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.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

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

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

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

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

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

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

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

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

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

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.