Diamonds Quotes - Page 2

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

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

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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

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.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

If at first you don't succeed try try try again.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

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

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

Slow and steady wins the race.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour day by day year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.

When I look up at Heaven,I see the souls of those who diedBeaming down at me,Wanting to scream: “I'm still alive!”,Wishing to scribble across the sapphire sky -Letters to their loved ones,But a million dark oceans stand between us,Between those who passed and the living,Between those of us still stuck below,And those who have crossed over the threshold of time -Where what seems like eternity to us,Is really only a few minutes to them.So you see, there is no reason to weep over the shining ones -For even though the space that separates us is limitless,The wall of time that divides us is only paper-thin.And one day, we shall all reunite with them,When our souls are released like fishBack into the vast shimmering seaTo shine together likeGlittering diamonds.

In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.

Make haste slowly.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully prepare prayerfully proceed positively pursue persistently.

People with good intentions never give up!

The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to recognise the worth of real diamonds. A person must study this in school. A diamond does not go to school to learn how to prove its worth. It is the person who must go to school in order to recognise the worth of a diamond. Dear diamonds everywhere, stop trying to go to school. The worthy will recognise your worth.

There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!

The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

We must endure what fortune sends.

I bend but I do not break.

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

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.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.