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Quotes about Instinct

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.
- Bishop TD Jakes
The people ahead of you, living in the liberty of instinct-guided uniqueness, will welcome you, encourage you, and mentor you. They will inspire you to be a pioneer and not a poser. Only those incarcerated by their unwillingness to listen to their instincts and to take the risks required for success will seek to deter you.
- Bishop TD Jakes
In my research, I was surprised to discover that some experts believe many people possess an instinct or a natural aptitude for making money, others for healing, creating art, organizing, or negotiating. I'm convinced our instincts emerge out of and alongside our gifting, so it makes sense that our instincts would reflect our talents and abilities.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Instinct and purpose often operate like a marriage.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
- Ted Dekker
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
- DH Lawrence
Custom is second nature.
- St. Augustine
In their wild state, before the appearance of the white man among them, the principal complaints they were subject to were those produced by long involuntary fasting, violent exercise in pursuit of game, and over-eating. Instinct more than reason had taught them a remedy for these ills. It was the steam bath.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
- Victor Hugo
The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their young.
- Victor Hugo
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young
- Victor Hugo
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.