Polished Quotes

• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• 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

  Soul And Body, Lust, Literature

  'An Essay Upon Projects' (1697)

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• When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Choices, Crushed

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• Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

  Robert South

  Armor, Innocence, Children Innocence

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.43

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• Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, People, Height

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• The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.

  Ron Kaufman

  Cutting, Service Culture, Edges

  "Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile". Book by Ron Kaufman, 2005.

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• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Society, Mosaics, Literature

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #5, 1798.

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• When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.

  Horace Walpole

  Moving, Passion, Age

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• I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

  Billy Bush

  Thinking, Slick, Reacting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Watches, Stuff, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

  James Joyce

  Mind, Quagmire, Stones

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1885, e-artnow

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• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bores You, Bored

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• Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

  Lin Yutang

  Life, Success, Lying

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

  Vera Nazarian

  Wise, Rocks, Take Time

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• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

  "The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". Book by William C. Chittick, p. 162, 1983.

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• I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

  Hilary Mantel

  Protective, Has Beens

  "Hilary Mantel: how I came to write Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 07, 2012.

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• At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Kings, Wall, Glasses

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• Dear friend,
  Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

  Carrie Underwood

  Glad, Versions, I Can

  "Carrie Underwood Isn't Afraid Of Sounding Dumb" by HuffingtonPost.com, May 1, 2012.

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• Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

  Albert Hadley

  Self, Discipline, Design

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• Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Glasses, Mirrors

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• When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

  Nichiren

  Lying, Mirrors, Jewels

  "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".

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• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

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