Diamonds Quotes
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
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.
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.
If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
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.
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'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.
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.
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.
The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
