These mold quotes will inspire you. Mold to knead or work (a material, such as dough or clay) into a desired consistency or shape or a distinctive and typical style, form, or character.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mold quotes, mold sayings, and mold proverbs.
Best Mold Quotes
- “The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.” ~ Timothy Keller
- “The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.” ~ Robert Collier
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“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.” ~ James Allen
- “Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.” ~ Rollo May
- “The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- “It ain’t easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you’re capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.” ~ Christopher Meloni , Break the mold quotes
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“What molds us is what maims us.” ~ Dennis Lehane
- “Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.” ~ Jessica Alba
- “TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.” ~ Josh Holloway
- “Imitation is being rewarded. They’re learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression – it’s a means to a lifestyle.” ~ Mike Watt
- “I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.” ~ Leonard Slatkin
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“I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.” ~ David Naughton
- “You’re being cast for your acting ability. It’s not based on the way your body functions. If you’re playing a lead in a movie, it’s for that character and they’ll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.” ~ Neve Campbell
- “It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.” ~ Learned Hand
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“Agitation is the marshaling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.” ~ Robert Peel
- “When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.” ~ Bashar al-Assad
- “It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn’t a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.” ~ Ann Wilson
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“The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I’m in that mold.” ~ Harold H. Greene
- “I’m social and I meet people and talk to people but I’m not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I’m just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I’m around and who I cross paths with.” ~ Picabo Street
- “George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.” ~ Tony Snow
- “You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people’s idea of that mold.” ~ William Hurt
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“Nature made him, and then broke the mold.” ~ Ludovico Ariosto
- “Pictures help you to form the mental mold.” ~ Robert Collier
- “Most women’s magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “We need role models who are going to break the mold.” ~ Carly Simon
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“I don’t fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I’ve been punished financially for it.” ~ Dennis Rodman
- “He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don’t become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren’t able to mold and shape and make their puppet.” ~ Dennis Rodman
- “Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
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“My parent’s divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn’t necessarily have had otherwise.” ~ Christina Aguilera
- “Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.” ~ Diane Glancy
- “We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “God made me and broke the mold.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“You can’t ask every player to do the same thing. That’s why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can’t ask them to be of the same mold.” ~ Tiffeny Milbrett
- “The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn’t come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.” ~ Frank Peretti
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“He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.” ~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- “Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman’s but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.” ~ Catharine Macaulay
- “I have come to believe … that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.” ~ Jane Addams
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“People who don’t fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “I’m the mold that grunge was grown in.” ~ Townes Van Zandt
- “In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.” ~ Jane Fonda
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“I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn’t go to his head either.” ~ Al Gore
- “I like doing clay work. It’s different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It’s quite visual, it’s a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.” ~ Bonnie Wright
- “Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.” ~ Thomas Troward
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“Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don’t mold yourself to others or to what others think. You’re an individual. You’re special.” ~ Austin Carlile
- “You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
- “Lift up your eyes upon
This day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts
Each new hour holds new chances
For a new beginning.” ~ Maya Angelou - “There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don’t quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the “real” women’s body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.” ~ Jo Nesbo
- “Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I’d pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person–a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person’s experiences–a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we’ve ever known.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
- “Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.” ~ Elizabeth George
- “All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.” ~ John Dewey
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“Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music. Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.” ~ Bjork
- “I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn’t an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses….If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted…At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.” ~ Isabel Allende
- “Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing if you will.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
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“I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.” ~ Ansel Adams
- “From the moment you make a decision, you lock your thoughts in a set mold.” ~ Yunho
- “Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, “It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions.”” ~ Zicheng Hong , Mold quotes yourself
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“The media has a formula, they have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials they don’t like. It’s not gonna work on Trump. He doesn’t fit that mold.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “I had a fantastic teacher in high school. I had one of those guys you dream of having, who molds your life and inspires you to go in a particular direction, and he was quite brilliant. His name was Cecil Pickett, and a lot of the kids from my high-school drama class are in professional show business and have done quite well.” ~ Brent Spiner
- “World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We’re separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me anymore.” ~ Billy Graham
- “And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.” ~ Theodore Roethke
