Diamonds Quotes

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

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.

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

Alfred

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

If you stop struggling then you stop life.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

People with good intentions never give up!

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.

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. ...

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!"

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

Shelley Winters

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

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.

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

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As long as one keeps searching the answers come.

Joan Baez

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

Johann von Goethe

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Geraldine Jewsbury

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.

Joe David Bellamy

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Teresa of Avila.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

William Carlos Williams

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Henry Ward Beecher

When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.

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

People can bear anything.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Euripides

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

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Leonardo da Vinci

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

Bible

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

Abraham Lincoln

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.

Arthur Christopher Benson

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

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