Katherine Dunham Quotes

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

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

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

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.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

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

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.