You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. — James A. Froude
In the house of the blacksmith, a wooden knife — Spanish Proverbs
The more you work the steel, the more beautiful it gets. — Albanian Proverbs
You must forge your own path for it to mean anything. — Rick Riordan
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. — William Butler Yeats
Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good — J. R. D. Tata
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. — Richard M. Nixon
If you put in the work to sharpen the steel, it will eventually turn into needles. — Vietnamese Proverbs
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. — Henry Ward Beecher
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached. — Jasper Johns
Short Forging Quotes
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day. — Che Guevara
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. — James Earl Jones
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid — Robert Liparulo
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear. — Mark Messier
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you. — Gary Renard
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. — Isabelle Eberhardt
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. — Estelle Ramey
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. — Patrick Henry
Forging Image Quotes
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Forging Steel Quotes
We will never allow any foreign force to bully, oppress, or subjugate us. Anyone who would attempt to do so will find themselves on a collision course with a great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people. — Xi Jinping
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
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel. — Marie Osmond
...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness. — Nelson Algren
My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make. — Charles M. Schwab
A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel. — Confucius
My poems please the brave:
My poems, short and sincere,
Have the force of steel
Which forges swords. — Jose Marti
Forging Friendship Quotes
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change — Richard G. Scott
There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires — Nelson Mandela
Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy. — David Sedaris
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something. — Anton Chekhov
To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. — Richard G. Scott
The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks. — Thomas Lennon
Forging Ahead Quotes
Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead. — Sonia Rykiel
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. — Clint Eastwood
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. — Daisaku Ikeda
Dig deep and believe in yourself and have the self-confidence you need to forge ahead. — Katie Couric
courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity. — Elizabeth Samet
One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them. — Robert M. Pirsig
There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film. — Haile Gerima
Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway. — Sayings
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. — Denis Diderot
She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model. — Molly Shannon
Valley Forge Quotes
I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping. — George Washington
Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley. — Mike Matheny
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already. — Don Rickles
From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them. — Theodore Roosevelt
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow... — Carl Sandburg
[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history." — Paul Kengor
106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents. — Jay Leno
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy. — John Knox
Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman
Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body. — Mas Oyama
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means. — Mao Zedong
All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing. — Alicia Keys
We sincerely call upon all countries to hold dear humanity’s shared values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom; to promote mutual understanding and forge closer bonds with other peoples; and to respect the diversity of civilizations. — Xi Jinping
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child. — Sayings
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
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
These mnemonic collisions during REM sleep spark new creative insights as novel links are forged between unrelated pieces of information. Sleep cycle by sleep cycle, REM sleep helps construct vast associative networks of information within the brain. — Matthew Walker
Bliss in depletion. I finally got it. It's that beautiful place of ascetic purity that is permitted to bloom only when the mind is stopped dead in its tracks and everything else is stripped away, leaving your soul--or who you really are--to forge a connection with the truth. — Rich Roll
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love. — Stephen Jay Gould
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. — James Allen
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression. — Wendy Kopp
In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man. — Marcus Luttrell
I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper. — Paulo Costanzo
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground. — Sharon Gless
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity. — Paulo Freire
You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge. — J. K. Rowling
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny. — Carlos Slim
My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for. — Shana Abe
We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry. — Harold Wilson
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators. — Gary Hamel
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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