"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the……" — Alexander Graham Bell

More Cannot Force Quotes

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• You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it. — Confucius
• Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way… — Rajneesh
• You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens… — Rajneesh
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. — William Hazlitt
• There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you… — Albert Camus
• The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. — Sholem Asch
• You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart. — Ashly Lorenzana
• All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our… — Strom Thurmond
• We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can… — Henry B. Eyring
• You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role… — Peter Senge
• The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have… — Peter DeFazio
• It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.… — Henry A. Kissinger

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