One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it. — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image