Slow and steady wins the race.
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.
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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...
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.
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy...
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience...
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
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