Life is like a grindstone -- whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is like a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. — Thomas Holcroft Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are… — Rob Kall Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on you. —L. Thomas Holdcroft” — Kim L. Abernethy Copy Share Image
First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
