Quotes About Perseverance

the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO If I live long enough the luck will change.

The fish is calm and steady. I will eat it all and then I will be ready.

his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? He

It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. His dorsal fin was down and his huge pectorals were spread wide.

It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides I believe it is a sin.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.

Ara went down and Thomas Hudson was alone with the night and the sea and he still rode it like a horse going downhill too fast across broken country.

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

El hombre no está hecho para la derrota; un hombre puede ser destruido, pero no derrotado.

The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. Rest now, old man, and let him work until your next duty comes.

Mas o homem não foi feito para a derrota — disse em voz alta. — Um homem pode ser destruído, mas nunca derrotado

El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

And what did last? I last, she thought. Yes, i have lasted. But for what?

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand. But his left hand had always been a traitor and would not do what he called on it to do and he did not trust it.

He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.

What will you do now if they come in the night? What can you do? Fight them, he said. I will fight them until I die.

This is the first sort of letdown we've had. So let's not let it let us down. We'll have long baths and some drinks and a meal twice as expensive as we can afford and we'll go to bed and make wonderful love.

Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night.

I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.