Perseverance Quotes

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep going"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: ‘My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.’"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I'm a survivor, I'm not gonna give up."

- Destiny’s Child

"It's going to take an entire career to do it and that's something I knew starting out. It didn't take Jack overnight to get to 18."

- Tiger Woods

"One of the things that Dad had instilled in me is that he grew up in an era, same era as Charlie Sifford and why my son is named after Charlie, is that you had to be twice as good to be given half a chance."

- Tiger Woods

"Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun."

- Ruth Westheimer

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to just try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view."

- Caedmon's Call

"I would still 'do it again' despite all the difficulty of training and roadblocks to just practice medicine. Truly is worth it!"

- James A. Bowden, MD

"While the journey seems long and hard at the beginning with perseverance and dedication the rewards at the end last a lifetime."

- Dr. William R. Francis

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."

- Jonas Salk

"Don't rush your most important work. Allow it instead to unfold along a sustainable timeline, with variations in intensity, in settings conducive to brilliance."

- Cal Newport

"Every flower blooms at a different pace."

- Suzy Kassem

"You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it."

- Cynthia Weil

"It would be a great disappointment for you to give up on yourself before the appointed time to reap the fruit of your labor."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking."

- Steve Jobs

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Martin Luther King III

"Success is not the absence of failure, it's persistence through failure."

- Aisha Tyler

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"Those who stay will be champions."

- Bo Schembechler

"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"In order to keep the lamp burning, you have to keep putting the oil in it."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Martin Luther King III

"If a person is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect."

- Bear Bryant

"We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

- Mother Teresa