Force Quotes - Page 39

• Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.

  Laozi

  Serenity, Mind, Taoism

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• Persuasion is better than force.

  Aesop

  Life, Persuasion

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.22, GENERAL PRESS

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• Coming into contact with the Mother is coming into contact with a force of passionate and active compassion in every area and dimension of life, a force that longs to be invoked by us to help transform all the existing conditions of life on earth so that they can mirror ever more clearly and accurately her law, her justice, and her love.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Compassion, Law

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.188, North Atlantic Books

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• The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Running, Unique

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• A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.

  Drew Ginn

  Moving, Energy, Needs

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Science, Squares

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• You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

  Henry Moore

  Luck

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• Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.

  Laozi

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• [I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented.

  William Kristol

  Military, Home, Priorities

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• So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Struggle, Numbers, Long

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• One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

  Richard DeVos

  Wise, Powerful, Believe

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• I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

  John W. Gardner

  Change, Moving, Past

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• Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

  William Penn

  Love, Winning, People

  "A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published".

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• Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Love, Creativity, Energy

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• Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Hands, Disaster

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Survival, Needs, Use

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• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Memories, Freedom

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• Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

  Michael O'Brien

  War, Liberty, Acting

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• The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Religious, Issues, Yield

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• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Elihu Root

  Men, Ideas, Perfection

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

  Mark Epstein

  Healing, Cutting, Hatred

  Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.23, Basic Books

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• The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Citizens, Body

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• It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

  William H. Seward

  Conflict, Endure, Irrepressible

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 25 Oct. 1858

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