Quotes about Perseverance

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides I believe it is a sin.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.