Quotes About Perseverance

You'll not fish without eating while I'm alive.

I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Con ng??i sinh ra không ph?i ?? th?t b?i. Con ng??i có th? b? h?y di?t ch? không th? b? khu?t ph?c.

La vela [...], recogida, parecía el estandarte de una eterna derrota.

Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

There is no way for you to get what you need and you will never have what you want again. But there are various palliative measures you should take. Go ahead. Take one.

The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.

If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.

Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die." But

One gains, the other loses, and only the weaklings are bothered with that.

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Santiago

Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly.

world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

Le monde nous brise tous, beaucoup en ressortent plus forts à l'endroit des fractures.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

Quando começou o Inverno, a chuva tornou-se permanente, e com a chuva veio a cólera. Mas foi dominada, e só matou sete mil homens do exército.

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

You were fighting against exactly what you were doing and being forced into doing to have any chance of winning