Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.

A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

You can’t be a self-leader if you are an enemy to yourself. Stop the hatred and love yourself.

Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

Just as you won’t enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won’t even wait to learn from people you hate.

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

As a sign of utmost gratitude for his contributions to the Indian society in restoring equal rights of the citizens, I confer him (B.R. Ambedkar) the title “Martin Luther King Jr. of India.

Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption

A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it

Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you

To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar

Right isn't always legal.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy

I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

It may sound strange, but I get the inspiration for most of my Dreams while I'm sleeping.

There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.