Top 444 Force Quotes

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
John C. Reilly
My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She’s a champion.
Jacob Collier
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
Wilfred Owen
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.
Michael Ignatieff
As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
Elizabeth Esty
The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.
Igor Ivanov
Some people just like to do their own thing. I ain’t sayin’ it’s wrong, but me, I wanna hustle with another hustler. I think two impactful hustlers, or three, or four, is a stronger force.
Yo Gotti
We’ve got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
Sam Heughan
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
Andrew Mellon
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
When in doubt, use brute force.
Ken Thompson
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Comscore, Nielsen, MediaMetrix and Quantcast studies all show women are the driving force of the most important net trend of the decade, the social web.
Aileen Lee
No government is here forever. And there are other forces – the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business – doing good for the environment.
Jared Diamond
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
The Obama Doctrine is the first presidential strategy in history that is exclusively about communicating – not implementing – policy. The Obama Doctrine seems to be ‘tweet with overwhelming force.’
Richard Grenell
We’re about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we’re going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
Aaron Sorkin
I believe that friendship is life’s most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.
Ananya Birla
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to b

It’s an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure… Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
Fatema Mernissi
I used to think feminism was a liberating force – now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
Lydia Lunch
Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, ‘Not my will, but thine be done.’
Ezra Taft Benson
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Francois Rabelais
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.
Mark Pagel
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum
Be patient – if something is supposed to happen, it’s going to happen. Whenever I’ve tried to force things, they didn’t go right.
Chiara Ferragni
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
Charles Platt
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs
I remember when ‘Grease’ came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I’d be screaming at her, ‘Do it. Just do it!’.
Gerard Butler
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
Melissa Bean
We didn’t do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.
Alexander Haig
For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
Laura Esquivel
It may be that our cosmic curiosity… is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It’s bigger than a word. It’s a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It’s something that you have to feel. It’s something that you have to live.
Ray Brown
Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force.
Steven Levy
Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
Michael Chiesa
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
Lewis Thomas
Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.
Isaac Newton
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
Girolamo Savonarola
The one thing we learned about community – you can’t force community.
Adam Neumann
I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, ‘Don’t follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.’
Billy Dee Williams
The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Jordan Peterson
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
Yo-Yo Ma
You musn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don’t try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with ‘How?’ or ‘What?’ so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.
Christopher Voss
What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really

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
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
Sholem Asch
I wasn’t a big Air Force 1 person until I started buying custom ones.
Loren Gray
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
Meles Zenawi
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
Robert McChesney