Tendencies Quotes

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.