I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
If you're a blacksmith, probably the proudest day of your life is when you get your first anvil. How innocent you are,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. — Pindar Copy Share Image
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
