157 Force Quotes

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Famous Force Quotes

What force is more potent than love? — Igor Stravinsky

Concepts become forces when they resist one another — Johann Friedrich Herbart

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished. — Alfred Thayer Mahan

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former. — Sun Tzu

When two forces unite, their efficiency double. — Isaac Newton

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. — Jonathan Haidt

Force always attracts men of low morality. — Albert Einstein

Right reason is stronger than force. — James A. Garfield

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers. — Dave Barry

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength — Lao Tzu

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. — Leon Trotsky

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest. — Albert Einstein

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. — Mahatma Gandhi

The irresistible force meets the immovable object. — Gorilla Monsoon

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity. — Tony Robbins

Short Force Quotes

  • To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. — Albert Einstein
  • Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. — Albert Einstein
  • There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise — W. E. B. Du Bois
  • The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates
  • Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky
  • Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno
  • Defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you. — J. K. Rowling
  • Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Water is the driving force of all nature. — Leonardo da Vinci

Force Image Quotes

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. — George Bernard Shaw

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. - Vera Rubin quote

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. — Vera Rubin

A leader leads by example not by force. - Sun Tzu quote

A leader leads by example not by force. — Sun Tzu

May the Force be with you. - George Lucas quote

May the Force be with you. — George Lucas

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark Twain quote

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. — Mark Twain

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. - Denis Waitley quote

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. - Winston Churchill quote

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. — Winston Churchill

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. - Denis Diderot quote

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Colin Powell quote

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. — Colin Powell

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. - Frank Oz quote

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. — Frank Oz

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. - Lou Reed quote

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. — Lou Reed

The imagination is one of the forces of nature. - Wallace Stevens quote

The imagination is one of the forces of nature. — Wallace Stevens

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. - D. H. Lawrence quote

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. — D. H. Lawrence

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. - Dave Barry quote

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry

Force quote If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things alwa
If an egg is broken by outside, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.

Star Wars Force Quotes

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force. — David Prowse

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. — George Lucas

Force quote Leaders don't force people to follow. They invite others on a journey.
Leaders don't force people to follow. They invite others on a journey.

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon. — Ayelet Waldman

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you. — Gary Gulman

The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies. — Wil Wheaton

Force quote Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

He is kind of like Yoda... 'There is only do or do not. There is no try.'" That actually succeeded in making her laugh through her tears. "you're a Star Wars fan?" "Oh yeah. May the Force be with you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Force Of Will Quotes

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! — James Connolly

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize. — George Bernard Shaw

Force quote Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity. — Fela Kuti

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can. — Oscar Romero

Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day. — Francisco Franco

Force quote Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair. — William James

The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom. — Maximilian Kolbe

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. — Samuel Adams

Never Force Quotes

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. — Robert Byrd

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. — Carter G. Woodson

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. — Karl Blossfeldt

Force quote The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tuley

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British. — Hermann Goring

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Soul Force Quotes

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W. E. B. Du Bois

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers. — Bo Schembechler

Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke

Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. — Ray Charles

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. — T. S. Eliot

General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. — Emilio Aguinaldo

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. — Thomas Carlyle

Driving Force Quotes

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me. — Lemmy Kilmister

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. — Hugh Hefner

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society. — Pedro Arrupe

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God. — Charles Spurgeon

You can't stop JPEGs on bitcoin. complaining will only make them do it more. trying to stop them and they'll do it in worse ways. the high fees drive adoption of layer2 and force . so relax and build things. — Adam Back

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. — Albert Einstein

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do. — Louie Giglio

Innovation is an important force driving human progress. — Xi Jinping

The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . — Jacob Bronowski

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all. — Norman Cousins

Physical Force Quotes

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands. — Theodore Kaczynski

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. — Ayn Rand

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet. — Ada Louise Huxtable

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. — Albert Einstein

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. — Wayne Dyer

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. — Edward Witten

We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness. — Emile Coue

This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin. — Carl Linnaeus

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell

Force And Energy Quotes

The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river's water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her. — David Deida

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe. — Nikola Tesla

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control. — Mikhail Gorbachev

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. — Martha Graham

I have learned of this great force and will never test the boundless energy of what is karma. — Ronnie Radke

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy. — Patanjali

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. — Bryant H. McGill

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success. — Deepak Chopra

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. — Sri Aurobindo

Brute Force Quotes

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. — Helio Gracie

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. — Ayn Rand

Persuasion is not about how bright or smooth or forceful you are. It’s about the other party convincing themselves that the solution you want is their own idea. So don’t beat them with logic or brute force. Ask them questions that open paths to your goals. — Chris Voss

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within. — Mahatma Gandhi

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi

The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect. — Bruce Lee

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. — William Cobbett

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. — Oscar Wilde

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. — Neville Chamberlain

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast. — Doyle Brunson

Force Fields Quotes

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage — Michael Richards

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself. — Deena Kastor

The whole force-field of Light rests on unity — Kenneth G. Mills

The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary. — Michael O'Leary

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. — Sun Tzu

When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing. — Jonah Hill

The Energy Bus serves as a force field to ward off any negativity that tries to infiltrate or enter your team or business. It made a big impact on our team. I recommend it highly! — Mark Richt

When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported. — Sun Tzu

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence. — Arthur Koestler

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More Force Quotes

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. — Douglas MacArthur

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. — Francis of Assisi

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know. — Carl Rogers

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. — Kwame Nkrumah

Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core. — Maria Montessori

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect — Frantz Fanon

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are. — Maimonides

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. — Steven Biko

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp. — Ernest Holmes

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion. — Joseph Pilates

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T. D. Jakes

When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth

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