Rough Quotes

• I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Peace, One Day

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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

  Larry David

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Determination, Commitment

  "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.

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• Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

  Umar

  Life, Wisdom, Islamic

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• In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Doe

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• And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Lasts, Beast, Hours

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupidity, Dumb

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• There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Sad, Comfort, Helping

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• 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

  Sexy, Husband, Smart

  E! Online Interview, October 04, 2002.

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• Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.87, Callisto Media Inc

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Adversity, Dark, Tough Times

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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• ...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

  George Orwell

  Men, Civilized

  "Rudyard Kipling" (1942). This is the closest passage in Orwell's writings that has been found to the following quotation popularly attributed to him: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf " (or sometimes, "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us").

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• When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

  Isaiah

  Together, Mountain, Desert

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• The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Distance, Hands, Mountain

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• Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  Evelyn Underhill (1956). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed. The Mystery of Sacrifice, a Meditation on the Liturgy”

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• Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Devil, Monsters

  Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

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