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Patience means restraining one's inclinations. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
Patience means restraining one's inclinations. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
As our inclinations, so our opinions. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An idle life always produces varied inclinations. -- Lucan
Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations -- David Myers
Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. -- Horace
Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart. -- Radhanath Swami
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. -- Francis Bacon
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. -- Ambrose
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations. -- Christian Wiman
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it. -- Charlotte Lennox
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. -- Henry Fielding
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. -- Thomas Browne
It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit. -- R. C. Sproul
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome. -- Michel de Montaigne
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. -- Josephus
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned. -- Kristin Hersh
Blood thirsty has nothing to do with guns and swords, it has all to do with vindictive inclinations -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. -- William Penn
Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God. -- R. C. Sproul
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them. -- Pat Summitt
The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations. -- Agatha Christie
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. -- Francis Bacon
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. -- Moliere
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. -- Steven Pinker
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. -- Martha Beck
There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man -- Konrad Lorenz
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. -- Konrad Lorenz
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man." -- Konrad Lorenz
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything. -- Tove Jansson
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. -- Isabel Allende
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within. -- Robert Greene
Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this. -- Taylor Dane
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. -- Samuel Richardson
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions. -- George Crabbe
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ... -- Alec-Tweedie
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -- Washington Irving
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice -- Izaak Walton
I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking. -- Anthony de Mello
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -- John Adams
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations. -- Thomas Huxley
One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave. -- Jim Rohn
As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction. -- Ahmed Zewail
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. -- Samuel Richardson
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. -- Erich Fromm
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. -- Nicolas Malebranche
Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations. -- Allen W. Wood
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it? -- George Etherege
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. -- Xun Zi
The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage. -- Peter Singer
In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. -- Robert Greene
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers! -- Michel de Montaigne
The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes. -- Ali Khamenei
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity. -- Wayne Dyer
Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity. -- Michael Leunig

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