Grindstone Quotes
19 quotes by 16 authors
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
— Fred Allen
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Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
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Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.
— Zig Ziglar
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One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the…
— Maurice Sendak
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First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or…
— Zig Ziglar
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
— Benjamin Franklin
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If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don’t have any nose,
— Les Wexner
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The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was…
— Robert Reich
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It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but…
— Chris Hadfield
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When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work…
— Ben Schwartz
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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood…
— Charles Dickens
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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
— H.G. Wells
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
— Josh Billings
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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.
— Josh Billings
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Hold your nose to the grindstone
— Proverb
Who Wrote These Grindstone Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 19 Grindstone Quotes as follows: