Steel Quotes

• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Acceptance, Self, Jewels

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Carpe Diem, Fire, Finest

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.525, Best Books on

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• My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.
  Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.
  Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,
  Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city he
  Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
  Which to this hour bewail the injury,
  Yet he shall have a noble memory.
  Assist.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Book, Cities

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered Portfolio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations ; with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to Each Play”, p.202

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• Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Courage, Government, Hands

  "The Authority Principle" in Daniel Guerin "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" (p. 90), 1980.

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• Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.

  Philip D. Murphy

  Paper

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• Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

  Joe Abercrombie

  Pain, Pity, Break

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• I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

  Charles M. Schwab

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• As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Character, Excellence

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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

  Chuck Norris

  Inspirational, Humorous, Anger

  Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.102, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

  Johnny Cash

  Strong, Sadness, White

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• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

  George Orwell

  Hatred, Leader, Doctrine

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

  James E. Faust

  Adversity, Fire, Iron

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• If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Courage, Survival, Danger

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• A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

  Zoroaster

  Men, Wisest Man, Knives

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• Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Fire

  Peter Kreeft (1994). “C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on The Abolition of Man”, p.90, Ignatius Press

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• To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Flames

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• My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. That which doesn't kill us doesn't have to make us bitter, unless we let it. Those fires show us what we can survive and clear the field for new growth. For a better harvest.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Fire, Growth

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• Steel True, Blade Straight.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Tombstone, Blades

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.12, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.

  Mark Millar

  Mma, Fighter, Resilient

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• After the USA, Germany today is once more the leading steel producing country in the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Usa, Germany

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• It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

  Golo Mann

  Easy, Mills, Novel

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• Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Commitment, Radiance, Height

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• The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
  Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
  My thrice-driven bed of down.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Tyrants, Bed

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [230]

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