Quotes About Perseverance

Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing," he said aloud. "I went out too far.

But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

You ought to write, he told himself. Maybe you will again some time.

The world break everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

É uma estupidez não ter esperança.

Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies. I wished to God it was over though. Maybe it would finish this summer.

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

El mundo nos rompe a todos, mas después, algunos se vuelven fuertes en los lugares rotos

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

Everyone is broken by life, but some people are stronger in the broken places.

Only dead fish swim with the current.

Nu e mare lucru s? scrii. Nu faci decât s? stai jos în faÈ›a unei maÈ™ini de scris È™i s? sângerezi.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

And what beat you, he thought. Nothing, he said aloud. I went out too far.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times….The first draft of anything is shit.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, how much you love, they catch you off guard one day and break you.

We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.

Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right.