Chisels Quotes

• A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

  William C. Bryant

  Sculpture, Grows, Marble

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• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Soul, Shapes

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• Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Cutting, Hands

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.129

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• The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Inspiration, Sculpture

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Yesterday, Worry

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jan 29, 2010

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

  Alexander Smith

  Beauty, Men, Evil

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

  Robert Breault

  Block, Character, Venus De Milo

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• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Artist, Errors, Keys

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Sweet, Pain, Healing

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• ...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

  Victor Hugo

  Block, Destiny, Black

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

  Pope Pius IX

  Pens, Sculptors

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• Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Hammers, Stones

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, April, Should

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• As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Axes, Years, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.558, St. Martin's Press

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• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Rain, Adventure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

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• My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Father, Hammers, Tools

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Block, Inspiration

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• That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

  Marc Maron

  Disappointment, People, Challenges

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.75, Spiegel & Grau

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• Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Creativity, Stones, Way

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• If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Nurse, Atmosphere

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