Diamonds Quotes

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

God helps those who persevere.

If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

Plodding wins the race.

Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom.

The only way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.

Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

Make haste slowly.

I don't like flowers, chocolate, cakes or diamonds either, I am definitely not a hard one to impress.

Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I were a widow!” Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather’s weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer?"Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Live with no time out.

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.

Her heart is of a much harder material... A diamond. Beautiful, but deadly…And amid people with hearts of diamonds, it is best to remember that no one is exempt from their malevolence. Not even themselves.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes