Diamonds Quotes - Page 4

One can go a long way after one is tired.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

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.

No great thing is created suddenly.

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

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

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.

Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.

First there are those who are winners and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

God helps those who persevere.

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.

For a life where diamonds really are forever

& 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.

Never admit defeat!

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

I have often been adrift but I have always stayed afloat.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.

I remember thinking as a child that diamonds were stars that fell from the sky as shooting stars. You can only imagine my disappointment at learning the truth of them. I still prefer the stars.

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

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

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

If love has taken us for a ride and passion made us ignore sham and swindle, the time has come to separate the wheat from the chaff and polish up diamonds of trust, neatly, day by day. ("Taken for a ride")

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the little backyard was filled with the little rainbows as the sun touched the dew.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

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.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

It helps I think to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith to endure to help each other when we stumble or tire to weep and press on.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.