Sterner Quotes

#1. Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre,
mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.
( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as
our strength lessens. )

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller

#3. Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world's tide is bearing me along;
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

Emily Bronte

#4. Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

Karen Marie Moning

#5. Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.

George Gordon Byron

#6. Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.

Sivananda

#7. The sterner self of the Populace likes bawling, hustling, and smashing; the lighter self, beer.

Matthew Arnold

#8. Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

Elizabeth Bowen

#9. Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.

William H. Sylvis

#10. The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now.

Rachel Hartman

#11. then flats of marigolds and petunias. Made of sterner stuff, I figured, their sort might survive my regime of horticultural neglect.

Kathy Reichs

#12. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

William Shakespeare

#13. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

#14. [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.

Marietta Holley

#15. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

Margaret Mitchell

#16. I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.

Julie Anne Long

#17. Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

Emmuska Orczy

#18. Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Christina Stead

#19. What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Anne Bronte

#20. Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

#21. Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#22. The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

Pete Carril

#23. Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

#24. Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Diana Trilling

#25. It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

Karl A. Menninger

#26. There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

Meister Eckhart

#27. Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

Henry Parry Liddon

#28. Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay.

Laura Frantz

#29. I thought all was lost. But I should have known better. My sweet, brave, bluestocking. You are made of sterner stuff than that. And I should have trusted you to save yourself.

Manda Collins

#30. Do not think that heroes cannot be broken! We are only more difficult to break, Hermione." The old wizard's eyes had grown sterner than she had ever seen. "When you have been exhausted for many hours, when pain and death is not a passing fear but a certainty, then it is harder to be a hero.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#31. We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.

Thomas Sterner

#32. So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice.

Thomas M. Sterner

#33. You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Thomas M. Sterner

#34. Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.

Thomas M. Sterner

#35. The feeling "I'll be happy when X happens" will never bring you anything but discontentment.

Thomas M. Sterner

#36. Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.

Thomas M. Sterner

#37. We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

Thomas M. Sterner

#38. Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Thomas M. Sterner

#39. Habits and practice are very interrelated. What we practice will become a habit.

Thomas M. Sterner

#40. The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

Thomas M. Sterner