Compelled Quotes

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.