Top 62 Propels Quotes
#1. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.
Joy Harjo
#2. Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
Steve Erickson
#3. I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.
April Bloomfield
#4. The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.
Paul Di Filippo
#5. It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.
John Harvey Kellogg
#6. Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.
Debbie Ford
#7. Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
#8. The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
Ryan Holiday
#9. Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.
Thomm Quackenbush
#10. I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'
James Corden
#11. Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Because it did used to be cool, super-cool, in fact - she was our Magellan, our Marco Polo, one of the wayward Walker women whose restless boundless spirit propels her from place to place, love to love, moment to unpredictable moment.
Jandy Nelson
#13. What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
Ranbir Kapoor
#14. It is not just boredom that propels my steps along paths unknown, but a firm belief that the guiding principle of life must be a search not for what is, but for what could be.
R.A. Salvatore
#15. An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
Will Hobbs
#16. I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
Tatiana Maslany
#17. No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#18. Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.
Newton Lee
#19. What propels things into being is intention, attention, and strong emotion. If we are not careful, we can manifest things we are afraid of, because the Spirit World reads resistance the same way it reads desire. According to shamanic wisdom, what you resist is what you become.
Jose Luis Stevens
#20. I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.
David Mitchell
#21. When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
Giancarlo Esposito
#22. Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#23. As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm
#24. A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
Prince Philip
#25. What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.
Paullina Simons
#27. Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.
Asa Gray
#28. I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.
Zal Batmanglij
#29. Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.
Max Lucado
#30. so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#31. I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.
Christopher Koch
#32. Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.
Jennifer Lawrence
#33. All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.
Gregory Crewdson
#34. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
Walt Whitman
#36. to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.
Jan L. Richardson
#37. Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.
Gad Saad
#38. Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.
Bruce H. Lipton
#39. Yes, and in your mail the apology note appears referring to "our mistake." Apparently your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion. This is how the apparatus she propels you into begins to multiply its meaning. What did you say?
Claudia Rankine
#40. It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
Gaston Bachelard
#41. Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward.
Melinda Gates
#42. True love propels a person to great feats all without so much as a word.
Joel T. McGrath
#43. Arousal begins within the mind, then seeps out where fantasy propels physicality.
Kristie LeVangie
#44. The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
Wassily Kandinsky
#45. Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.
Patricia Velasquez
#46. I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.
Sebastian Barry
#47. Hope floats but effort propels.
Rob Liano
#48. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
#49. Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.
James Vance
#51. This one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
this blessing love gives again into our arms.
Galway Kinnell
#52. I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
Rachel McAdams
#53. Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.
Richard Branson
#54. Yes, karma propels us into all kinds of unexpected situations," His Holiness said. "This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.
David Michie
#55. I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
Colin Farrell
#56. I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.
Richard Branson
#57. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.
Miroslav Penkov
#59. Evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")
William S. Wilson
#60. People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
Mary-Louise Parker
#61. Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.
Cathleen Falsani
#62. Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.
Rod Stryker
