The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning…

It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

— Ramana Maharshi

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

— Billy Casper

We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor…

— Mark Hopkins

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their…

— Berl Katznelson

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters:…

— William Shakespeare

Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks…

— Robertson Davies

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

— Robert Jordan

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

— Isaac Newton

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

— Joel Greenblatt