(129 quotes found)
“Pressure makes diamonds.”
General George S. Patton
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
Chinese Proverbs
“A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.”
Henry Kissinger
“There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back”
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“Perhaps Time's Definition of Coal is the Diamond.”
Kahlil Gibran
“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
Emma Goldman
“My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy”
William Shakespeare
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear”
Daniel Defoe