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In a short answer, yes. Once you apply a force to an object, it will move.

But in fact, there is a little more to the equation. You see, Newton's second law of motion states that you have to add up all the forces acting upon a system so see what will happen to it. If the answer is zero, as in one force pulling one way and the other pulling the opposite direction exactly, then those forces will basically cancel each other out.

So yes, forces will always result in motion, unless there is another force exactly opposed to it.