Force Quotes

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

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

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.

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

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

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?

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.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

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

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.