Shine Bright: A Collection of Inspirational Diamond Quotes

"Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon."

- Sope Agbelusi

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

"A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond."

- Solange Nicole

"A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials."

- Warren Buffett

"You are a diamond, unbreakable if it is so, and broken, in any shape, remains still a diamond."

- Ehsan Sehgal

"Big girls need big diamonds."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds…"

- Ana Claudia Antunes

"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Pressure can make a diamond. Pressure makes me play better because I don't want to let my teammates or my fans down, and that makes me play extra hard."

- Robert Horry

"Angels are like diamonds. They can’t be made. You have to find them. Each one is unique."

- Jaclyn Smith

"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

"Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light."

- John Webster

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."

- Juvenal

"Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever."

- Horace Mann

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."

- Confucius

"Diamonds never leave you… men do!"

- Shirley Bassey

"Persistence beats pressure, consistency beats pressure, resilience beats pressure."

"No pressure no diamonds, no struggles no strength, no friction no growth."

"What’s your decision? Have you taken all the shots you think you can take? I guarantee you can get back up and take more."

"If you want to be a diamond you must first face the pressure, stand strong through the pressure then and only then have you earned the right to shine brighter than you could ever imagine ultimately now also helping others shine."

"It’s only under extreme pressure that the greatest diamonds are formed."

"The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His."