Hardness Quotes
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles De Gaulle
This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.
— John Eldredge
Don't forget how to be gentle," she warned. "Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.
— Gary Rohrmayer
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there's a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
— Alexander McQueen
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
— Tennessee Williams
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
— Lalita Tademy
Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.
— Matthew Henry
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
He beat into her swiftly and powerfully as his hardness overflowed in her burning canyon.
— Scarlet Chill
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.
— William Shakespeare
Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).
— Richard Baxter
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current ...
— Henry Giroux
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
— Francis Schaeffer
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of
softness overcoming hardness. — Lao-Tzu
softness overcoming hardness. — Lao-Tzu
softness overcomes hardness.
— Mark Kurlansky
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce ...
— George Lincoln Rockwell
Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
— Yehuda Amichai
You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
— Lalita Tademy
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
— Jim Elliot
Hardness ever of hardness is mother.
— William Shakespeare
Every cell singing, begging for a rush of sensation only the press of male hardness against female softness could give.
— Gena Showalter
Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart.
— Bryant McGill
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
— Jane Addams
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
— Theodore Roosevelt
He was one of those men ... who know in their hearts that for all their edgy, belligerent hardness they are just unhappy kids, emotional retards.
— Iain Banks
Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.
— Bryant McGill
I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
— Mother Teresa
In Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.
— Michael Ondaatje
Hardness shatters; strength endures.
— Robert Jordan
It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When
— Madeleine L'Engle
A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness.
— G.K. Chesterton
I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair
— John Geddes
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
— Madame De Stael
-it's life... In all its granite hardness.
— Ken Bruen
It's only the essence of a thing that counts. When time strips everything else away, it's only the hardness of the bone that's left.
— Diana Gabaldon
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
— Matthew Arnold
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.
— William Wordsworth
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
— C.J. Mahaney
Only hardness or only softness creates an inability to deal effectively with the fluctuations of life.
— Seikichi Toguchi
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
— C.S. Lewis
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
— B.C. Forbes