Iron Quotes

• None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

  Ratan Tata

  Rust, Mindset, Persons

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• When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.

  Andrew Levitas

  Creativity, Ideas, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk the strait and narrow path together. Our example is magnified in their eyes. They will follow our cadence when they feel secure in our actions. We do not need to be perfect-just honest and sincere. Children want to feel as one with us. When a parent says, "We can do it! We can read the scriptures daily as a family," the children will follow!

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Children, Eye, Hands

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• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

  Henry Rollins

  Strength, Running, Workout

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard

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• I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

  Susan Orlean

  Mother, Party, Home

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Creativity, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.137, Penguin

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• The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

  Marie Osmond

  Steel, Heat, Lord

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Heart, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Sharpening

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• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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  The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Time, Mean, Blood

  Speech to the Budget Commission of the Prussian Diet, September 30, 1862.

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• This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

  Samuel Smiles

  Science, Civilization, Soul

  Samuel Smiles (2010). “Men of Invention and Industry”, p.87, BoD – Books on Demand

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• As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
  As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,
  As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Science, Moon

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Bars

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

  Mark Twain

  Educational, Inspiration, Gold

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, Ironing Board, White

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.290, Zola Books

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• Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Hammers, Anvils

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• As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

  Tim Tebow

  Inspirational, Men, One Man

  Tim Tebow (2016). “Shaken Bible Study: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms”, p.47, WaterBrook

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• The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Men, Blood, Land

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 82-83, Lehre an den Menschen, 5, 1922.

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• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  Wendell Willkie

  Honesty, Work, Winning

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• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Love Life, Water

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• Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

  Ezra Cornell

  Mind, Rust, Economy

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• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  Antisthenes

  Jealousy, Anger, Passion

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

  Joseph Stalin

  Military, Water, Dry

  Joseph Stalin (1953). “1907-1913”

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