Louis Zamperini Quotes

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Never give up, no matter what.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

If you can take it, you can make it.

I was raised to face any challenge.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up you fight to the finish.

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.