Hardness Quotes
67 quotes by 59 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Clark Coolidge
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
— Alexander McQueen
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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
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The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...
— Henry Giroux
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And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
— Moby
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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
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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
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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to…
— David Wilkerson
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Hardness Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 67 Hardness Quotes, led by these top contributors: