Hardness Quotes
Hardness Quote of the day
Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
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.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.
The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.
All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).