Quotes about Determination

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

we must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear

Take the first step. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amidst the piercing chill of an Alpine November.

This may well be," I said, "the darkest hour just before dawn. We have moved all of these months with the daring faith that God was with us in our struggle. The many experiences of days gone by have vindicated that faith in a most unexpected manner. We must go out with the same faith, the same conviction. We must believe that a way will be made out of no way.

If you can't fly then run. If you can't run, then walk. And, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving

If you can't run then walk If you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do don't give up