#polished

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#i #i think #lifted #me #might

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#antagonist #courage #everything #keen #manner

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. ↗

— James Stockdale

#by the time #dead #get #half #into

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

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

— Vera Nazarian

#polished #rock #smooth #wisdom #wise

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

#body #diamond #like #luster #must

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#fair #fair share #had #her #here

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

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work. ↗

— George Kennedy

#full #get #hour #hundreds #imagine