Irresistible Quotes

• What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Fighting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.136, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Eye, Air

  William Hazlitt (1872). “Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).”, p.365

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

  Henry Ford

  Passion, Eye, Swings

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• I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

  Gustave Moreau

  Passion, Burning, Abstract

  "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe, p. 32, June 5, 1972.

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• Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Passion, True Power

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Passion”, p.2, Dell

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• Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

  Lewis Gannett

  Weed, Drinking, Eye

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• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Don't Give Up, Courtesy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Temptation, Body

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• There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Power

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• I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

  Plato

  Teaching, Yield

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.370, Booklassic

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• …I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans

  Lawrence Durrell

  Mean, Islands, Sea

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Elements, Our Society, Attraction

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• Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Years

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• The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

  Blaise Pascal

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Memorable, Creativity

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beauty, Clever, Successful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine: A Story”, p.233

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• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Hope, Stars

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• The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Nwo, Mind, New World Order

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• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  Earl Warren

  Heart, Men, Age

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• We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Evil, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Rev”

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Art, Essence

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• The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

  Bela Lugosi

  Bites

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• There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

  John Mott

  Leadership, Taken, Years

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