Diamonds Quotes

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

~ Raymond Chandler

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

~ William Hazlitt

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

~ Anouk Aimee

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

~ Louis L'amour

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

~ Rosie Perez

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.

~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

~ Erica Jong

Tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope.

~ Bible

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

~ Mary Parker Follett

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!

~ Joaquin Miller

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

~ Shelley Winters

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

~ Georges Jacques Danton

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.

~ Johann Von Goethe

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

~ Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

~ Diane Glancy

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

~ Meridel Le Sueur

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

~ Julia Ward Howe

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

~ David Berry

God helps those who persevere.

~ Koran

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

~ Henry Miller

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

~ Alfred

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

~ Mother Teresa

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

~ Huey Newton

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.

~ Louis L'amour

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

~ E. M. Bounds

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.

~ Maltbie D. Babcock

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

~ Clementine Paddleford

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

~ William Saroyan

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

~ Lil' Kim

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.

~ Chrissy Teigen

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

~ Thomas Browne

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

~ Peter Marshall

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

~ Clara Schumann