A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

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

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Voltaire

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.

Henry Blackaby

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 stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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 Spurgeon

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Charles Spurgeon

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Emily Dickinson

We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Erwin Rommel

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

George Orwell

The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.

Ellen DeGeneres

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