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.
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.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Plodding wins the race.
Live with no time out.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Men do not fail they stop trying.
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...
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
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.
All is well that ends well.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.