Quotes About Endurance

I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they sacrificed, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book is dedicated. Laura Hillenbrand May 2010

You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little bit.

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Eventually, he could stay underwater for three minutes and forty-five seconds. People kept jumping in to save him.

Laura Hillenbrand

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

What the Zamperinis were experiencing wasn't denial, and it wasn't hope. It was belief.

A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory

Pete urged Louie to enter the Compton Open and try his legs at a longer distance. "If you stay with Norman Bright," he told Louie, "you make the Olympic team.

Their hunger dimmed, an ominous sign. They had reached the last stage of starvation.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.

Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books....The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

quiet courage. "It's not the courage that allows you to run into a burning building. It's the kind that allows you to accept the unacceptable, bear the unbearable, keep going.

Mrs. Monaghan says we don't always have to say what we like and what we don't like. We should just practice dealing with it.

Maybe the point is just to get through one hour, and then another, and not think farther ahead than that.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust that it will.

La Muerte tiene una hermana, más taimada y perseverante, que se llama Agonía. La dama Agonía me sostiene en sus brazos desde aquella vez-

There's always a fire.

That seemed to be the most horrible thing of all, that you could lose something so precious to you, something you loved, and still go on.