Quotes About Perseverance

we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding mott

Para hacerse imitable no se precisa esconder algún suceso oscuro o denigrante, pero sí resulta necesario percibir el ángulo frágil de su entereza...

Un hombre que se vuelve consciente de su responsabilidad ante quien lo aguarda con todo su corazón, o ante una obra por terminar, nunca será capaz de tirar su vida por la borda. Conoce el porqué de su existencia y podrá soportar casi cualquier cómo.

know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible." Is

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

our sacrifice did have a meaning.

El hombre que se dejaba vencer por la ausencia de futuro ocupaba su mente con pensamientos retrospectivos. Ya me he referido a la tendencia a refugiarse en el pasado para apaciguar el horror del presente haciéndolo menos real. Pero

A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering has no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and still more intensely.

it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

But even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Tilly must have been among them.

Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts. In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the present, with all its horrors, less real. But

Cách má»™t ng??i ch?p nh?n s? ph?n và nh?ng Ä'au kh? c?a mình, cách má»™t ng??i dám v??t qua nh?ng thá»­ thách Ä'ó Ä'em l?i cho ng??i ?y nhi?u cÆ¡ há»™i ?? hi?u ???c ý nghÄ©a sâu xa hÆ¡n c?a cuá»™c s?ng ngay c? trong nh?ng hoàn c?nh kh?c nghi?t nh?t.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer [...] his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden.

Cela va mal dans le monde, mais cela ira encore plus mal à moins que chacun de nous ne fasse de son mieux.

Gariptir; bazen, hedef ÅŸa??ran bir darbe, hedef bulandan daha çok yaralay?c? olabiliyor.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.

Los que hemos vuelto de allí gracias a multitud de casualidades fortuitas o milagros —como cada cual prefiera llamarlos— lo sabemos bien: los mejores de entre nosotros no regresaron.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

Dånet och sorlet från havsstranden fyller mina örons snäckor. Men de förmår inte driva undan mina förföljare: Mina tankars frågor ställes och upprepas. Men det finns inga svar åt dem --- de slår sönder sig bara, emot en granithård mur. De kastas tillbaka, sköljs bort. Men de kommer igen, alltid igen, som vågorna utifrån vattenvidden.