Force Quotes

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which… — Rabindranath Tagore
Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who… — Laozi
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful. — Henry David Thoreau
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. — Plato
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it… — Frederick Douglass
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force. — Harold Laski
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,… — William Shakespeare
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor… — Eric Hoffer
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process. — William James
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself,… — Euripides
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of… — Walter Scott
Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make… — May Sarton
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I… — Henry Ford
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is… — John Dryden
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,… — William Cowper
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. — John Milton

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