Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.
I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and...
Live with no time out.
Plodding wins the race.
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
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.
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the mu...
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.