Diamonds Quotes - Page 4

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Clare Boothe Luce

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

We rate ability in men by what they finish not by what they begin.

Anonymous

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Ulysses S. Grant

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it there is no other.

Anonymous

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Robert W. Service

No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

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

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

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

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

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.

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