Quotes About Inclination

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction!

What you do with ease is your passion.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, involves a certain danger. Although it aims to correct our behaviour and wipe out our vices, it may—through not being handled properly—end up merely encouraging us to carry on in directions that we're already naturally inclined to follow.

For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

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

I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.