Quotes About Endurance

Da linedanseren var kommet halvveis, tok tauet slutt.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

You have no idea how to drown, so you're gonna swim.

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

Gracias por seguir existiendo." Victoria

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

No hay fuerza más poderosa y antigua que la del corazón.

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.

Laura Hillenbrand

Green Hornet being loaded for its final flight. Courtesy of Louis Zamperini

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

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.

The crash of Green Hornet had left Louie and Phil in the most desperate physical extremity, without food, water, or shelter. But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity.

Each of his workouts was attended by ten thousand or more spectators.

With arms shrunken to little more than bone and yellowed skin, the castaways waved and shouted

Louie, declared dead more than sixty years earlier, would outlive them all.

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When Louie was in his sixties, he was still climbing Cahuenga Peak every week and running a mile in under six minutes.

Thorbjørn Christiansen

Louie never saw a Chong diner finish his meal.

actress Esther Williams on the wall. The note that Louie had left on the locker was gone, as was the liquor. Among Louie's things, Krey found photographs that Louie had taken inside his plane. In some of them, Louie

Zamperini looked toward his crewmates. They were too weak

On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil leared a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.