As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial...
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
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...
In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.
& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom.
When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split...
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!
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 th...
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
If at first you don't succeed try try try again.
Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?
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