Top 41 Hammer And Anvil Quotes
#1. Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.
Carine Roitfeld
#3. It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
Young Buck
#4. It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.
George Orwell
#5. Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Robert Jordan
#6. There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
William James
#7. In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
#8. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
Alfred Nobel
#9. We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
Charles Schumer
#10. Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#12. There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
L.M. Montgomery
#13. They say just before you die, your life flashes before you. The same may be true before you arrive at a new consciousness.
Judith Johnson
#15. It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.
George Papandreou
#18. Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
#19. What the hammer? What the Chains?
In what furnace was thy brain?
Where the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
William Blake
#20. For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham
#22. The blades sang like the strokes of a hammer on a blacksmith's anvil echoing in the empty churchyard.
Stanley Goldyn
#23. ... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer...
Terry Pratchett
#24. Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
J.G. Holland
#26. I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
Erwin Rommel
#27. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.
Colette Freedman
#28. She put her hands over her ears and made a monkey face. Even then, she couldn't look ugly. She had such good bones, her skeleton would have been an ornament in any closet.
Ross Macdonald
#29. God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.
Tad Williams
#31. 'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.
Romesh Gunesekera
#32. Ordinary effort, ordinary result ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.
Ethan Hawke
#33. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer ...
George Orwell
#35. Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis De Sade
#36. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Neal A. Maxwell
#37. Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
J.G. Holland
#38. The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
#39. A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
Saint Dominic
#40. You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.
Herman E. Daly
