Top Impulses Quotes
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
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
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Hans Kung
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman 
Henry Miller 
Lindsey Buckingham 
Nathaniel Hawthorne 
Egon Schiele 
Edna St. Vincent Millay All Impulses Quotes
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman 
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With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
Judy Chicago
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Francis Wright
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
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Popular Impulses Authors
Mason CooleyAlbert EinsteinEric HofferHenry MillerSigmund FreudMarshall McLuhanGore VidalGustav MahlerSydney J. HarrisNathaniel HawthorneWilliam J. ClintonDanny ElfmanElie WieselWalter BenjaminLindsey Buckingham
Franz SchubertHans KungDaniel GolemanHans HofmannStephen HopkinsCharles Maurice de TalleyrandNelson A. MilesFrancis WrightEdna St. Vincent MillayJack LevineJudy ChicagoVan Wyck BrooksJim ElliotEgon SchieleKenneth Clark
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