Force Quote by Mark Twain

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

— Simi Ngr

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

— Marvin Bower

Principles have a way of yielding to power.

— Bette Lord

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

— Laura Schlessinger

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

— Thomas Jefferson

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

— Edwin Markham

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,…

— Clint Smith

You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.

— Luke Hemsworth