Louis Zamperini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Giving Up #Thinking
All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Sacrifice #Bodybuilding #People
God knew my needs and took care accordingly.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Needs #Care
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.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Believe #Fighting #Mind
I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Giving Up #Race #Giving
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Men #Water #Mind
If I can take it, I can make it.
-- Louis Zamperini
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.
-- Louis Zamperini

#People #Say Anything #Throat
If you can take it, you can make it.
-- Louis Zamperini
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Army #Air #Hawaii
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Kids #Rotten #Excitement
Self-esteem canâ€™t win you a race if youâ€™re not in shape.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Self Esteem #Winning #Race
Never give up, no matter what.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Giving Up #Giving #Never Giving Up
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Air #Sea #Land
That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Sports #Country #Giving Up
People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.
-- Louis Zamperini

#War #Exercise #People
Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when youâ€™re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Pain #Racing #Body
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Love You #Family Love #World
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.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Hate #Poison
I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.
-- Louis Zamperini

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

#Sports #Perseverance #Giving Up
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.
-- Louis Zamperini

#New York #Race #Names
However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Dark #Night #Light
You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Sacrifice #Bodybuilding #Willing
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Given
Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Sports #Baby #Kings
I was raised to face any challenge.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Challenges #Faces #Raised
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.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Past #Forgiving #Faces
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Hurt #Hate #Real
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
-- Louis Zamperini

#Believe #Glasses #People

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