Impel
verb
To force or push someone into action; to drive or urge forward.
His desire for success impelled him to work late into the night.
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- impel someone to
- impel to action
verb
To cause to move forward or onward.
The strong wind impelled the ship towards the shore.
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- impel forward
- impel onward
verb
To force or push someone into action; to drive or urge forward.
His desire for success impelled him to work late into the night.
Often appears as...
- impel someone to
- impel to action
verb
To cause to move forward or onward.
The strong wind impelled the ship towards the shore.
Often appears as...
- impel forward
- impel onward
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Pro Tip 1/3Internal Motivation
Used when an internal drive moves someone to act, often linked to personal goals or desires.
His passion for art impelled him to open a gallery.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency Connotation
Suggests a sense of urgency or necessity in the action being taken.
The approaching deadline impelled her to finish the report quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Force
Involves emotional or psychological pressure that encourages action.
Her empathy for the homeless impelled her to volunteer at the shelter.
Pro Tip 1/3Internal Motivation
Used when an internal drive moves someone to act, often linked to personal goals or desires.
His passion for art impelled him to open a gallery.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency Connotation
Suggests a sense of urgency or necessity in the action being taken.
The approaching deadline impelled her to finish the report quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Force
Involves emotional or psychological pressure that encourages action.
Her empathy for the homeless impelled her to volunteer at the shelter.
Pro Tip 1/3Internal Motivation
Used when an internal drive moves someone to act, often linked to personal goals or desires.
His passion for art impelled him to open a gallery.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency Connotation
Suggests a sense of urgency or necessity in the action being taken.
The approaching deadline impelled her to finish the report quickly.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Force
Involves emotional or psychological pressure that encourages action.
Her empathy for the homeless impelled her to volunteer at the shelter.
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Video examples
The myth of Prometheus -...
the author imagines Prometheus as a romantic hero who escapes and continues to spread empathy and knowledge. Of his protagonist, Shelley wrote, "Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives
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Jonathan Zittrain: The...
It's this thin geeky line that keeps it going. Not because it's a job, not because it's a career, but because it's a calling. It's something they feel impelled to do
Video examples
The myth of Prometheus -...
the author imagines Prometheus as a romantic hero who escapes and continues to spread empathy and knowledge. Of his protagonist, Shelley wrote, "Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives
Video examples
Jonathan Zittrain: The...
It's this thin geeky line that keeps it going. Not because it's a job, not because it's a career, but because it's a calling. It's something they feel impelled to do
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Quote examples
Vikram Seth
Indian Novelist
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Richard Eyre
British Director
I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
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Emile Zola
French Novelist
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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Aleksander Kwasniewski
Polish Politician
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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John Steinbeck
American Author
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
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Theodore Sturgeon
American Writer
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
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Vikram Seth
Indian Novelist
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
Quote examples
Richard Eyre
British Director
I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Quote examples
Emile Zola
French Novelist
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
Quote examples
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Quote examples
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Polish Politician
We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.
Quote examples
Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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John Steinbeck
American Author
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
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Theodore Sturgeon
American Writer
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
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