Anvil Quotes

57 quotes by 51 authors

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed. — Charles Spurgeon
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of… — T.D. Jakes
Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping. — Neal A. Maxwell
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. — Horace
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives… — Berl Katznelson
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and… — Alfred Nobel
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? — Isaac Newton
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as… — Mark Hopkins
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. — Emily Dickinson
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. — Hubert H. Humphrey
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike. — Edwin Markham
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the… — Leland Stanford
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. — Charles R. Swindoll
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer... — George Orwell
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 you. But… — Lloyd Alexander
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil. — Elizabeth Haydon
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan

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