Quotes About Perseverance

Los corazones, sabes..., se vuelven más duros y resistentes con cada golpe que reciben.

Intentas seguir el camino que crees correcto, pero avanzas con un angustioso peso en el corazón...,

Una pesadilla para lograr un sueño. El infierno para llegar al cielo prometido. Anabella

Se preguntó con amargura por qué la vida se obstinaba en demostrarles que debían separarse cuando estaban juntos..., para volver a reunirlos cuando trataban de alejarse.

Creía que estabas muerto-. dijo -Soy demasiado cabezota como para dejarme matar.

No tienes la menor idea de lo que ha significado para mí recoger todos los pedazos de mis sueños rotos. Y nunca lo entenderás. Si me hubieses matado anoche, no me habrías hecho más daño del que me has hecho ya.

Lo importante es ser capaces de salir adelante, no importa lo duro que parezca el camino.

I understand fear better than anybody. Part I don't understand is giving in without a fight.

He (Thomas Smith) believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Every horse could be improved. He lived by a single maxim: 'Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.

We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.

In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'll be an easier subject than Seabiscuit, because I can talk." Louis Zamperini to Laura Hillenbrand.

Every morning, the Omori POWs were assembled and ordered to call out their number in Japanese. After November 1, 1944, the man assigned number twenty-nine would sing out "Niju ku!" at the top of his lungs.

If you dig into it, it comes back to you. That's the way war is.

I can't describe the feeling he gave me," Howard said later, "but somehow I knew he had what it takes. Tom and I realized that we had our worries and troubles ahead. We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.

Old Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he said. "Maybe that's enough.

At a Japanese POW camp, this dead American was found near war's end, still standing, at a sink at which he was trying to drink. American soldiers and guerrillas went behind enemy lines to rescue the men at this camp, but they were too late. They found the bodies of 150 POWs, starved to death.

A month earlier, twenty-six-year-old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport. Now his Olympian's body had wasted to less than one hundred pounds and his famous legs could no longer lift him. Almost everyone outside of his family had given him up for dead.

It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate.

At last, a door thumped open. A man rushed out and snapped to a halt, screaming "Keirei!" It was the Bird. Louie's legs folded, the snow reared up at him, and down he went.

In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the rest had gone mad.

Four more times the Japanese strafed them, sending Louie into the water to kick and punch at the sharks until the bomber had passed.

He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.