Quotes About Perseverance

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go.

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It is not the question of courage. It is something constitutional, an ability to let go. It maybe nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Some of us give up[…] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.

I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

I was determined to move forward.

Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others.

An epic simplicity

I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out.

life will defend itself no matter how smallit is

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others- and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter what the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's...an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.

If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Above all, don't lose hope

Things didn't turn out the way they were suppsed to, but qhat can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat.