Diamonds Quotes

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

~ Thomas A. Edison

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.

~ James J. Corbett

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

~ Clint Eastwood

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

~ Francis Bacon

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

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

~ Louis L'amour

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.

~ Lisa M. Amos

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.

~ Darrell Royal

Only yield when you must never give up the ship but fight on to the last with a stiff upper lip!

~ Phoebe Cary

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

~ Josephus Daniels

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

~ Beverly Sills

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

~ Fay Weldon

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.

~ Paul William

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

~ Alva Reimer Myrdal

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.

~ Winston Churchill

Patient endurance attends to all things.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

To be somebody you must last.

~ Ruth Gordon

He conquers who endures.

~ Anonymous

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.

~ Edward A. Strecker

To bear is to conquer our fate.

~ Thomas Campbell

Keep breathing.

~ Sophie Tucker

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.

~ Mary Caroline Richards

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

~ Ernest Hemingway

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

~ Bliss Carman

I bend but I do not break.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

~ Bible

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

~ Johann Von Goethe

To be somebody you must last.

~ Ruth Gordon

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

~ William E. Henley

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

~ Alfred

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

~ Robert J. Donovan

God Almighty hates a quitter.

~ Samuel Fessenden

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

~ Buddha

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

~ Virgil

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

~ Virgil

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.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

~ Frank Lane

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

~ Dolly Parton

What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.

~ Thomas Fuller

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

~ Yiddish Proverb