Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You just want to keep going, keep putting your best foot forward, keep putting one foot in front of the other.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

When you go through a tunnel - you're going on a train - you go through a tunnel, the tunnel is dark, but you're still going forward. Just remember that. But if you're not going to get up on stage for one night because you're discouraged or something, then the train is going to stop. Everytime you get up on stage, if it's a long tunnel, it's going to take a lot of times of going on stage before things get bright again. You keep going on stage, you go forward. EVERY night you go on stage.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

Stay on your toes and always move forward.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

He who limps is still walking.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.