Diamonds Quotes

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

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

People with good intentions never give up!

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

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

I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

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

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

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

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

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

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!

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

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

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

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

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

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Never admit defeat!

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

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.

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

"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!"

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.

Keep breathing.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

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

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 must dare and dare again and go on daring.

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.

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

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.

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

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.

Grant me the courage not to give up even though I think it is hopeless.

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