100+ Irresistible Force Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

topic: Believe, Belief, Force, Irresistible Force

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Women, Science, Males, Clever Woman, Mustard

War is the Health of the State.

- Randolph Bourne

source: Randolph Silliman Bourne (1965). “The world of Randolph Bourne: an anthology edited”

topic: War, States, Minority Groups, Perpetual War, Antiwar

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Believe, Men, Self, Irresistible Force

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

topic: Marriage, Example, Force, Irresistible Force

The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn't, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.

- Babatunde Olatunji

topic: Animal, Tree, Skins, Irresistible Force

For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.

- Max Weber

topic: Cells, Order, Everyday, Economic Order, Irresistible Force

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Spiritual, Lying, Moving, Irresistible Force

From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins. To take into the inmost shrine of the soul the irresistible forces whose puppets we seem to be - Death and change, the irrevocableness of the past, and the powerlessness of Man before the blind hurry of the universe from vanity to vanity - to feel these things and know them is to conquer them.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.52, Booklassic

topic: Past, Men, Vanity, Outer Worlds, Powerlessness

This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.

- Ralph Waldo Trine

source: Ralph Waldo Trine, Mina Parker (2012). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway: Create the Life You Want, A Hampton Roads Collection”, p.14, Hampton Roads Publishing

topic: Attitude, Adversity, Law, Make The Best Of It, Occult

1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

- Pat Metheny

topic: Night, Guitar, Icons, Irresistible Force, Hard Days

This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.

- Diana Wynne Jones

topic: Book, Eye, Home, Foreground, Goons

A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

topic: Positive, Attitude, Integrity, Mental Attitude, Kindliness

Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.