Quotes About A Diamond In The Rough

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

Mary McLeod Bethune

#2. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley

Peter Whitmer

#3. As a wolf, I'm a diamond in the rough. I crack jokes. My whole life is about trying, about speaking up in order to be seen, about howling with laughter or howling out how I see the world.

Jessi Klein

#4. Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

T.F. Hodge

#5. Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

Tina Fey

#6. You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Kenneth Edmonds

#7. I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

Jada Pinkett Smith

#8. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Michael Dorris

#9. My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mother Jones

#10. Hard-bitten had a double meaning: bitten hard by life, like her, or clamping meanly down on other people. But, as though belying his thoughts, she said, "I hope your days are good."
"If only. My eyes, you know, are like Swiss cheese, the doctor says. I see through the holes.

Edward Hoagland

#11. He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.

Emily Bronte

#12. No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

Jodi Picoult

#13. It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Orison S. Marden

#15. Life was messy, conflict inevitable. It didn't mean you had to fall apart.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#16. Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Amy Tan

#17. Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

Anton Julius Carlson

#18. There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.

Travis Thrasher

#19. There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

Katherine Paterson

#21. Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so.
There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything ... changed her life, changed her destiny: She. Comes. With. Me.

J.R. Ward

#22. So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved
and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough,
Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up,
But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough ...

Britt Nicole

#23. Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Larry David

#24. 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

#25. Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#26. It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Lord Chesterfield

#27. As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Red Smith

#28. With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

Ryan Tedder

#29. Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Pras Michel

#30. I offered to pee on him, but they said no

James Patterson

#31. Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

Eminem

#32. You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. You look like a dirty stone amongst the sheen, but your value far exceeds the silky dull shine of a pearl.

Criss Copp

#33. Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Kenneth Edmonds