Etty Hillesum Quotes

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.