Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.

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

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

No matter what happens, keep on hitting the ball.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.

Stop crying... keep hustling.

Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.

Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Never give up on what you really want to do

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

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