(90 quotes found)
“I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath!”
Lord Byron
“Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.”
Baltasar Gracian
“I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.”
Jim Elliot
“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
“A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime”
Albert Einstein
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”
Eric Hoffer
“Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . ."”
Rollo May
“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports”
Piet Hein
