Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing. — Friedrich Schiller
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God.… — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is… — Mahatma Gandhi
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. — Carl Jung
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!â€”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

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