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Force Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Your thoughts attract things with a force, that you cannot see, but is definitely real.”

Rhonda Byrne

Thoughts, Attraction, Energy, Manifestation, Force

2. “You’ve got to find the force inside you.”

Joseph Campbell

Inner Force, Personal Power, Force, Inner, Power, Personal

3. “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

Victor Hugo

Conscience Voice, Speaking Force, Conscience, Voice, Force, Speaking

4. “Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.”

John Milton

Victory, Force, Wisdom, Conflict Resolution, True Conquest

5. “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”

Ayn Rand

Reason, Force, Conflict, Rationality, Power, Violence

6. “When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on ‘What would happen to the world if there was no friction?’ Answer: ‘Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.’ That was my mood.”

Haruki Murakami

Science, Friction, Mood, Life, Change, Force

7. “When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.”

Ayn Rand

Force, Conflict, Power, Strength, Retaliation, Defense

8. “Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.”

Henry Miller

Force, Power, Control, Resistance, Conflict, Failure

9. “What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.”

Robert Greene

Potential Force, Strategic Options, Power Situations, Force, Options, Power

10. “To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.”

Ayn Rand

Force vs. Persuasion, Political Philosophy, Rational Action, Force, Philosophy, Reason

11. “To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.”

Isaac Newton

Physics, Action, Reaction, Laws, Force

12. “Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme.”

John Milton

Reason, Force, Power, Equality, Supremacy

13. “Those who are coerced by force become our enemies, those who succumb to reason become our allies.”

Alexandre Dumas

Coerced Reason, Human Allies, Force, Enemies, Succumb, Reasoning

14. “They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much.”

Harper Lee

Unjust Actions, Excessive Force, Sad Reflections, Actions, Force, Reflections

15. “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

Communism, Socialism, Enslavement, Force, Vote, Politics

16. “There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Universe, Force, Spirituality, Miracles, Flow

17. “There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.”

Albert Einstein

Willpower, Strength, Determination, Motivation, Force

18. “There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.”

Ayn Rand

Force, Logic, Persuasion, Power, Conflict, Violence

19. “The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”

Voltaire

Liberty, Independence, Force, Power, Freedom, Philosophy

20. “The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect – but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.”

Isaac Asimov

Conflict Temptation, Restraint Wisdom, Fight, Force, Patience, Strategy

21. “The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong – and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.”

Ayn Rand

Morality, Force, Ethics, Justice, Rights, Dispute

22. “The law of attraction doesn’t turn off and on, like a light switch. It’s not a subject to fate or fancy. It is a powerful but neutral force that is constantly operational.”

Joe Vitale

Constant Attraction, Neutral Force, Life Energy, Attraction, Force, Energy

23. “The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Force, Legitimacy, Authority, Rebellion, Ethics

24. “The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”

James Baldwin

Art, Image, Reality, Force, Representation

25. “The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.”

Michelangelo

Transformative Creativity, Perceptive Insight, Problem-Solving Art, Creation, Perception, Force

26. “The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.”

Isaac Newton

Motion, Force, Physics, Direction, Law, Mechanics