Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old impulse quotes, impulse sayings, and impulse proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.Emile Souvestre
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The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.Harold Ramis
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The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist.Amanda Palmer
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.Agnes Repplier
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Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.Saul Bass
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When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.Paul Schullery
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Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.Robert Collier
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We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.Baltasar Gracian
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The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.Jonathan Messinger
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The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.Barnett Newman
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When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.Justina Chen Headley
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Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.Stephen King
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Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.Deepak Chopra
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The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.Gary Zukav
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.George Santayana
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Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.George Gilder
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The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.Jeanette Winterson
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The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.Colin Wilson
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The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.Lidia Yuknavitch
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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.Angus Wilson
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The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.Virginia Postrel
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Everyone has the impulse to be elite.Alfre Woodard
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The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.Rose Macaulay
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The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.Agnes Sanford
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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.Jane Austen
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.W. H. Auden
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.Helen Keller
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.Joan Didion
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.Oscar Wilde
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Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.William James
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.Friedrich Nietzsche
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The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.Robert Harris
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.William James
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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.Dennis Covington
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A first impulse was never a crime.Pierre Corneille
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It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.Andy Andrews