Forces Quotes

• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Like
  • Compassion

• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Forces
  • Healers

• Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Reason

• We live in a complex world. There are many forces calling out, 'Love me.' A sure way to set our guidelines for that which we choose to serve and learn to love is to follow the admonition of Joshua: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • World
  • Live
  • Love

• I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Believe
  • Light

• Over the past decade a combination of diverse forces has created a significant increase in the global supply of saving -- a global saving glut.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Past
  • Combination
  • Supply

• The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Country
  • Today
  • Study

• When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Forces
  • Possibilities
  • Falls

• Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.

  

  Wernher von Braun
  • Trying
  • Religion
  • Creation

• Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Forces
  • Human Progress

• The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Potent

• One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forces
  • Separate
  • Repeat

• At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • 21st Century
  • Free People
  • Information Age

• We are talking about thousands of innocent lives being lost, about almost inevitable casualties among our own forces... and the alienation of moderate Muslim opinion across the world.

  

  Chris Smith
  • World
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Earth
  • Forces
  • Rotation

• Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Industry
  • Companies
  • Strategies

• Every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Transformation
  • Stream
  • Political Structure

• [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Evil
  • Forces
  • Resister

• There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

  

  Chris Heimerdinger
  • Work
  • Forces
  • Grey

• Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Help
  • Anxiety
  • Last Man

• The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Horse
  • Ego
  • Relation

• The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

  

  Confucius
  • State
  • Forces
  • Commander

• The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Light
  • Gospel
  • Forces

• I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Know
  • Opinion
  • Believes

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