Anvils Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

— Emily Dickinson

In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men…

— Leonid Andreyev

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

— Saint Augustine

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

— William Wordsworth

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and…

— William Cowper

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

— William Shakespeare

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

— John Bunyan

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting…

— William Shakespeare

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

— Saint Augustine