Tracy Kidder Quotes

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

I've always believed in survival.

I'm still swimming.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

The only way round is through.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

To the stars through thorns.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

You either fall, or you fight - and I chose to fight.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.