Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness. — Rabindranath Tagore
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free. — Henry David Thoreau
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese… — Winston Churchill
What a force is laughter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead… — George Bernard Shaw
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he… — Edward Everett
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which… — Victor Hugo
The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus… — Nathan Shedroff
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind. — Emma Goldman
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs… — B.K.S. Iyengar
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to… — Eugene Gendlin
Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me physical beauty is not the issue, vibrational beauty is and the most beautiful people I meet are those who are radiating the love… — Jasmuheen
There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from… — Marianne Williamson
If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms. — Mahatma Gandhi
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in… — John F. Kennedy

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