Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.

— Chelsea Scott

But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right. . . And it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men.

— Samantha Shannon

Emotions, moods, impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind.

— H.g.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

— Aleister Crowley

It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. The natural connection is the other way. To say that one person’s desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good. Strong impulses are but another name for energy.

— John Stuart Mill

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

— Neal Shusterman

Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice. The mind is a powerful tool with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves.

— Alaric Hutchinson

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

— Niccolò Machiavelli

No one taught us how to address our impulses. No one.

— Ashlecka Aumrivani