Inclination Quotes

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

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

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

Taste may change,
but inclination never.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

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

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

I am myself by inclination an investigator.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Necessity dominates inclination,
will,
and right.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

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

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.