Diamonds Quotes - Page 3

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.

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

No one can bother the one who has not interfered in the slightest with anyone. If such a person were to go into a town of robbers, the robbers will welcome him with respect and offer him food. No matter how many diamonds he would have with him, the robbers would not be able to touch them. Otherwise they would rob even the one who is accompanied by ten policemen.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.

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

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure

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

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

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.

One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

People can bear anything.

Women are like sparkling diamonds, if you let too many hands touch it, not only will it get dirty with too many smudges and finger prints, it will also lose its shine and lustre.

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.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

As long as one keeps searching the answers come.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is appropriate.

No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

All is well that ends well.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

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.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

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

If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.

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.

I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

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.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.

All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.

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