For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike…

“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.”

— Edwin Markham

“For all your years prepare, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear-- When you are the hammer, strike. ”

— Edwin Markham

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

— George Herbert

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

— Erwin Rommel

“Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.”

— C.L. Werner

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Stand like a beaten anvil.”

— Ignatius Bishop and Martyr

When your opponent is drowning, throw the son of a bitch an anvil.

— James Carville

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

— Thomas Malory

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

In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You tell that to the people who are dying everyday in Anvil.

— Jin Kazama