Quotes About Perseverance

loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.

A man who looks miserable, down and out, sick and emaciated, and who cannot manage hard physical labor any longer … that is a 'Moslem.' Sooner or later, usually sooner, every 'Moslem' goes to the gas chambers. Therefore, remember: shave, stand and walk smartly; then you need not be afraid of gas

Such people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself.

tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

E de-a dreptul ciudat ca, uneori, o lovitura care nici macar nu lasa vreo urma poate durea mai tare decat una care lasa urme.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

the period following his admission;

Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

man who could not see the end of his "provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind. Then

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost. The typical reply with which such a man rejected all encouraging arguments was, "I have nothing to expect from life any more." What sort of answer can one give to that? What

once lost, the will to live seldom returned.

iba a hacer. En aquel momento comprendí, con toda crudeza, que ningún sueño, por horrible que fuera, podía ser peor que la realidad del Lager a la que cruelmente iba a devolverlo.

If someone had seen our faces on the journey from Auschwitz to a Bavarian camp as we beheld the mountains of Salzburg with their summits glowing in the sunset, through the little barred windows of the prison carriage, he would never have believed that those were the faces of men who had given up all hope of life and liberty. Despite that factor - or maybe because of it - we were carried away by nature's beauty

Quien tiene un porqué para vivir puede soportar casi cualquier cómo».

Such people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence.

If someone now asked of us the truth of Dostoevski's statement that flatly denies man as a being who can get used to anything, we would reply, 'Yes, a man can get used to anything, but do not ask us how.

Como quien se agarra a un clavo ardiendo, dado mi innato optimismo (que tantas veces me ha ayudado a controlar mis sentimientos, incluso en las situaciones más desesperadas)

He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How." He

Whoever has a why to live can bear almost any how," as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how.

Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society - all these were things that could be achieved again or restored.

The past few years have certainly disenchanted us, but they have also shown us that what is human is still valid; they have taught us that it is all a question of the individual human being. After all, in the end, what was left was the human being! Because it was the human being that survived amidst all the filth ofthe recent past.

They must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning.