Steel Quotes

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

  Charles M. Schwab

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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 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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• Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

  Nelson Mandela

  Broken, Leaving, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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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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• You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.

  Jonathan Kent

  Growing Up, Character, Men

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• Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Terror Attacks

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?

  Jonathan Kent

  Answers, Universe

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• People are afraid of what they do not understand.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  People

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• It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

  Danielle Steel

  Taken, People, Rooms

  "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

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• Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Iron, Gold

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• There are words which cut like steel.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cutting

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• It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

  Greg Lynn

  Motivation, Inspiration, Design

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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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• Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Reality, Mad, Magic

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Creating, Giants

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