Diamond From Coal Quotes & Sayings

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard. — Maya Angelou

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. — Jose Mourinho

Old lady Patterson is a real tightwad." Raising his voice
so it would carry, the man continued, "If she stuck a lump of coal
up her ass, within a week she'd shit out a diamond. — Drew Hunt

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools. — Craig Charles

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. — Edwin Lefevre

Always think about practice ... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work. — Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become ...
That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done. — Salman Rushdie

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. — Chanakya

For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond. — Sunday Adelaja

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. — Kahlil Gibran

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). — Billy Joe Shaver

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm. — A.J. Dalton

If you had a piece of coal, we could hold her down, shove it up her ass, and come collect a big, fat diamond in a few days. — M. Leighton

I have a crush on Steve Tyler. He's funny, he rocks, and has a voice like a god. There is another one who I have discovered can sing. I should try and make an album with him ... it's Barack Obama! — Lulu

Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime ... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else. — Ingrid Weir

In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets. — Jared Diamond

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous. — Timothy Keller

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. — Miriam Darnell

Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure — Lemony Snicket

Hemingway should have stayed in the Midwest. He ruined things for the rest of us, telling all those lies. The lie about courage, the lie about every red-blooded male needing to kill a bull or climb Mount Kilimanjaro. — Francine Prose

The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss. — Donald Miller

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job — Thomas A. Edison

He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface. — Lauren Oliver

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out. — Terry Pratchett

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. — Nicky Gumbel

Kindness is not random, it is done on purpose — Sonya Withrow

Instructions for freedom:
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.
3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.
4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.
5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go.
6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go.
7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go.
8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go.
9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go.
10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. — Henry A. Kissinger

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin';
We both on assignment to unearth the diamond. — Mos Def

Shawna smiles demurely at the attendant, her lips barely moving as she speaks to me. "If you had a piece of coal, we could hold her down, shove it up her ass and come collect a big fat diamond in a few days."
"I'm pretty sure it takes longer than a few days for coal to turn into a diamond, Shawna."
"Not in that tight ass, it wouldn't. — M. Leighton

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal. — C.S. Lewis

Everyone deserves something lovely, she said. It was something that she truly believed. — Nicki Salcedo

There is so much about him I don't know - so much past and history buried somewhere inside of him. He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.
So much I haven't asked him, and so much we never talk about. Yet in other ways I feel like I do know him, and have always known him, without having to be told anything at all. — Lauren Oliver

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come. — L.M. Montgomery

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. — Ron Rash

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. — Jodi Picoult

A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure — Proverb