Tendencies Quotes

• Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Passion, Patriotic

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

  Lydia M. Child

  Jesus, Bravery, Political

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Thoughtful, Action

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• The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Power, Names, Government

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sea, Water, Different

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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• Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Play, Action, Life Is

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• I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Character, Evil, Shining

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Purpose, Literature, Conscious

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Rebel, Levels

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• I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  Xunzi

  Teacher, People, Principles

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• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  Xunzi

  Nature, Kings, Men

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• IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

  Edward Carpenter

  College, Should Have, Law

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I see tendencies, I see body language.

  Michael Chang

  Body, Language, Body Language

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• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

  Zoe Kazan

  Self, Bored, Worst

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

  Markus Wolf

  College, Taught, Problem

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• Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Income, Incentives

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business

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• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Self, People

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• With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without the blessings of a guru. Think of the guru as the manifestation of God in this world. Take even the most insignificant word of the guru as an order and obey it. That is the real service to the guru. There is no greater austerity. The guru's blessings flow automatically to any obedient disciple. That is the real service to the guru.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

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• We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Spiritual, Real, Drama

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• A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

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• If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Gay, Judging

  Press conference of Pope Francis during the return flight from Rio de Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 28, 2013.

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• It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Book, Creating

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Guarantees, Path

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 06, 2011

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