Forcing Quotes

“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The greatest power requires the gentlest touch.

If you have to intervene or force yourself on someone else, then what that's actually an indication of is that you don't actually believe in your own power.

Because if you believed in your own power - if you knew you were powerful enough to create the reality that you prefer - why would you need in any way shape or form to interfere with anyone else's process?”
― Bashar

“It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Perfect State

“Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff – so “How many robots can you afford?” will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“It's bizarre how we compliment eachother by saying "You look younger than what you are". I mean, can't we just be proud of our age and not constantly at war with a natural phenomenon?”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“If you won't get your hands dirty, Doctor, we'll have to force you to get them dirty.”
― Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine

“Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' clearly have no grasp of irony.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“It is you, who forced me to take the way of the tit for tat; otherwise, I was not such a person.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Forcing things merely because of attachments or external pressures can lead to a delicate balance between persistence and futility. The moment you find yourself forcing a situation solely because of attachments or the involvement of others, it may be time to reevaluate your path. Sometimes, we push situations beyond their natural rhythm, motivated by attachments or external expectations, inadvertently straying from our authentic path.”
― CARSON ANEKEYA

“As much as a part of him ached to force her into compliance right now, he knew better. Force had been what had brought this curse on his family in the first place. Force wouldn’t fix it.”
― Elisabeth Wheatley, The Archduke: A Daindreth's Assassin novella