Diamonds Quotes

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

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

Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

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

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

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

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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.

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

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

Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.

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!"

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

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

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.

It's the steady constant driving to the goal for which you're striving not the speed with which you travel that will make your victory sure.

Keep breathing.

Live with no time out.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

He conquers who endures.

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.

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.

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.

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

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

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.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

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.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

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...

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

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.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.

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

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

Removing a diamond on a rock is painful but it's more painful when it loses its value when it's not cherished, let alone shaping.

Plodding wins the race.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.