Sholem Asch Quotes

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Man is not made for defeat.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Strength is itself victory.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

To survive is to win.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Love conquers all.

Survival is triumph enough.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Success is survival.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

My story is a freedom song from within my soul. It is a guide to discovery, a vision of how even the worst pain and heartaches can be channeled into human monuments, impenetrable and everlasting.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.