Quote by Emily Dickinson

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

— Erwin Rommel

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

— George Orwell

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

— Freya Stark

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

— George Orwell

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

— Carl Sandburg

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

— Simon And Garfunkel

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

— George Herbert

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

— Laurell K. Hamilton

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow