Quote by Edwin Markham

“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.”

— Edwin Markham

“It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.”

— George Orwell

“Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I will not move an inch; I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking”

— Munia Khan

“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

“you have to know when something is worth fighting for, when it’s something that will come along only once in a lifetime. Twice, if…

— Erin Knightley

“Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.”

— G.A. Henty

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

— Emily Dickinson

“If all you have is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.”

— Robert Sedgewick

“As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift…

— Carl Sandburg

“If your only tool is a hammer, all your problems will be nails,”

— Rolf Dobelli