Forge Quotes

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)
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. View quote
James Anthony Froude
Even the best opportunities and readiness to help will not give up if the nation itself does not fight and forge its own destiny by its own struggle. View quote
Stepan Bandera
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. View quote
Jean Froissart
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. View quote
Anthony the Great
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say. View quote
Paulo Coelho
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. View quote
Virgil
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. View quote
Edmund Burke
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. (Roger Zelazny)
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past. View quote
Malcolm X
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day. View quote
Che Guevara
Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time. View quote
Max Planck
Don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh? View quote
Rick Riordan
You must forge your own path for it to mean anything. View quote
Rick Riordan
Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage. View quote
Rick Riordan
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. View quote
Rick Riordan
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp. (Frances Hardinge)
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. View quote
Bill Cosby
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. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. View quote
James Earl Jones
It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England. View quote
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa