Hardness Quotes

67 quotes by 59 authors

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and… — Laozi
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling… — Laozi
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles de Gaulle
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that… — John Flavel
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments,… — Babe Paley
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. — Clark Coolidge
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, thereâ€™s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off. — Alexander McQueen
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists. — Moby
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with… — Edward Irving
Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a marriage. Sometimes we… — Stormie Omartian
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. — Laozi
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook — B. C. Forbes
O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the… — Thomas Boston
Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, â€˜Lord, I want to conform to… — David Wilkerson
I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before the… — Yeasin Khan
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,… — E. M. Forster

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