Top 672 Compelled Quotes & Sayings

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

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

Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

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

Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.

All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

I'm compelled to make music.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.

That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.

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

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

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

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

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

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.

I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Whenever I have time and am compelled to watch anything, it's usually something I'm not in!

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.

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

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

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.

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

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.