Anvil Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

— Voltaire

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is…

— J. G. Holland

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

“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

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

— Carl Sandburg

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

— Erwin Rommel

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

— Charles Spurgeon

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

— Robert Jordan

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and…

— Leland Stanford

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

— Isaac Newton