Force Quotes

Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,
it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent;
it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
- Andre Maurois

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands.
Lasting peace comes not from force.
- David Borenstein

There are two ways of attaining an important end,
force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter
grows irresistible with time.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined
to me and cherished by myself.
- Thomas Aquinas

It is art that makes life, makes interest,
makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever
for the force and beauty of its process.
- Max Eastman

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as
long as I am President that is what it will remain.
They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
- Harry S. Truman

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Everett Dirksen

Skill is the unified force of experience,
intellect and passion in their operation.
- John Ruskin

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him
to believe that the law contrives against him.
- Potter Stewart

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself,
encourage me to grow.
- Cher

Trust is a great force multiplier.
- Tom Ridge

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
- Edward Steichen

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
- Peter Marshall

There is no evil and there are
no evil forces in the world.
There are only people of awareness,
and there are people who are fast asleep -
and sleep has no force.
The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people.
And one awakened person can awaken the whole world.
One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted
without losing it's light.
- Osho

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want.
It makes more money.
- Merle Haggard

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
- Nelson Rockefeller

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties
gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations
that life will someday force us to make.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Trying to force creativity is never good.
- Sarah McLachlan

Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation,
and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands
prevails over that of those who obey.
- Denis Diderot

USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right.
It speaks the writer's will to live.
- Don DeLillo

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge
of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
- Phyllis Schlafly

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world
without having an effect on the rest of it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman,
but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

If the poet has pursued a moral objective,
he has diminished his poetic force.
- Charles Baudelaire

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
- Hassan Nasrallah

The force of the blow depends on the resistance.
It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation.
Either fly or yield at once.
- F. H. Bradley

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into
a being with its own centrifugal force.
- Sharon Olds

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions;
desire causes our voluntary acts,
force our involuntary.
- Blaise Pascal

Evolution is not a force but a process.
Not a cause but a law.
- John Morley

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period
put just at the right place.
- Isaac Babel

I believe in a higher force that is within me.
- Tobey Maguire

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
- Publilius Syrus

Writing has never been a driving force within me.
- Jeffrey Combs

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will.
What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
- Lauryn Hill

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
- Chris Chocola

Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality.
Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false;
amended to be true,
they lose their explanatory force.
- Nancy Cartwright

Communism is trying to take the world by force.
But God will take the world by love.
- Sun Myung Moon

America's finest - our men and women in uniform,
are a force for good throughout the world,
and that is nothing to apologize for.
- Sarah Palin

Even while we busily attend meetings,
contribute money and perform our assigned tasks,
we suspect that we may be helping to create a force
that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
- Robert Shea

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural
outcome of a world in which force rules,
in which human beings are objects.
- Chris Hedges

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
- Thomas Hobbes

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking,
now takes on a new relevance in a world where,
if war is to go, only law can replace it.
- Roger Nash Baldwin

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

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized,
the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
- Bruce Beresford

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame
does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,
but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
- Charles Babbage

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it,
or thinks he does, as it is to its victims;
the second it crushes,
the first it intoxicates.
The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- Simone Weil

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