Quotes About Inclination

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

I've got an addictive personality.

I'm not ambitious, I never have been; it's just not in my DNA.

if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who enjoy a nice salami and those who have no souls.

it—I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem.

Do not read what you don't like

God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

She was striving to change, she was, but it was hard, all the same, to let go of the glory of her past certainties, of her belief in passion, and surrender, and the seductive power of giving in to inclination.

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5)

And the diseases from which we civilized people suffer most are melancholy and pessimism. So I, for instance, who can count so many years of my life during which I lost any inclination to laugh - leaving aside whether or not this was my own fault - I, for one, feel the need for a really good laugh above all else. I've found it in Guy de Maupassant, and there are others - Rabelais among the older writers

Each man is led by his own liking.

Drenka Balich's perfectionism on the job was not her only immoderate inclination.

Nikt bardziej nie lubi mówi? ni? jÄ…kaÅ'y, nikt bardziej nie lubi chodzi? ni? chromi.

Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.

Go with what you're attracted to.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.