1.
None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
Ratan Tata
'No force can corrode iron, except its own oxidation! Similarly no power can break a human, apart from their own mentality!'
2.
Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
Benedict of Nursia
Take heed to exercise caution, so as not to damage the entirety of the object while removing the corrosion.
6.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron
Ezra Cornell
7.
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.
Wilder Penfield
8.
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.
Edward Ramsay
10.
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
12.
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
Colonel Sanders
13.
I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!
Dave Mustaine
14.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
15.
We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
Joan Baez
16.
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
20.
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
Francois Fenelon
21.
There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
Anne Sexton
22.
I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
Margaret Thatcher
23.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
Denis Waitley
24.
Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire
25.
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
Ovid
26.
What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
Rita Mae Brown
28.
Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.
Sathya Sai Baba
29.
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Plato
30.
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
Theodore Roosevelt
31.
People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
Colonel Sanders
32.
Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.
Kurt Vonnegut
34.
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Milan Kundera
35.
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Vladimir Nabokov
36.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Rumi
37.
Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.
Graham Henry
38.
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
Jeanne Calment
39.
I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
Alfred Schnittke
40.
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
Thomas Watson
41.
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
Leonard Cohen
42.
Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]
Ludwig Borne
43.
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.
Michael Chabon
44.
Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.
Vladimir Nabokov
48.
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.
Van Jones
49.
I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather
50.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Quintilian