Anvils Quote by Erwin Rommel Download Open image “I would rather be the hammer than the anvil” — Erwin Rommel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anvils Hammers
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
“It is my experience that bold decisions give the best promise of success. But one must differentiate between [strategic] and tactical boldness and a… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
