Chisel Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen. — Rudyard Kipling
No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone. — Terry Bradshaw
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God… — Peter Kreeft
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life… — Orison Swett Marden
Thatâ€™s the big challenge of lifeâ€”to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you donâ€™t annoy your friends with your whining. — Marc Maron
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as… — John Ruskin
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant
The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out… — Emil Kraepelin
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the… — Michelangelo
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. — Max Lucado
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting… — Howard Whitley Eves
Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three… — James G. Watt
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a… — Robert Henri
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We… — William Butler Yeats
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces.… — Steve Pavlina

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