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

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Hammers, Anvils

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

  Ezra Cornell

  Mind, Rust, Economy

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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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• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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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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• The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Flames

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Blood, Stones, Red

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Habit

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• For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

  Spike Milligan

  Hands, Years, Feet

  "The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder"". TV Series, March 28, 1957.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

  Scott Lynch

  Wall, Angel, Bars

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• Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

  Adrian Lyne

  Interesting, Intuition, Bumps

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• I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Memories, Three, Bars

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