Quotes about Urge
To purge means to clear or get rid of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition, or to physically remove something completely. Let's develop the urge to purge and remove anything that could be dragging you backward so you can be free to move forward.
- Terri Savelle Foy
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
The law is this: Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." As I have already pointed out, it is this urge that differentiates us from the animals. It is this urge that has been responsible for civilization itself.
- Dale Carnegie
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
- Deepak Chopra
concupiscence
- Thomas Merton
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
- Bruce Lee
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
- John Ortberg
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything — everything.
- Maya Angelou
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received. Ephesians 4:1
- Beth Moore
Traffic is thick, so my urge to gun the car, to feel the freedom of this temporary independence, is stymied by the congestion at every intersection. I look up through the windshield at the bruised sky, hoping it won't rain.
- Bill Clinton
My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.
- Etty Hillesum