Irresistible Quotes

• What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Fighting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.136, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

  Henry Ford

  Passion, Eye, Swings

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

  Gustave Moreau

  Passion, Burning, Abstract

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe, p. 32, June 5, 1972.

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• Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

  Lewis Gannett

  Weed, Drinking, Eye

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• Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Passion, True Power

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Passion”, p.2, Dell

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• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Don't Give Up, Courtesy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Temptation, Body

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

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Power

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Elements, Our Society, Attraction

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• Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Years

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• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

  Blaise Pascal

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Memorable, Creativity

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Hope, Stars

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• A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beauty, Clever, Successful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine: A Story”, p.233

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• The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Nwo, Mind, New World Order

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• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  Earl Warren

  Heart, Men, Age

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• …I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

  Lawrence Durrell

  Mean, Islands, Sea

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

  Bela Lugosi

  Bites

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• There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

  John Mott

  Leadership, Taken, Years

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• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Church, Partnership, States

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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• The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

  Josiah Royce

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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• Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Hands, Romance, Enemy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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