Martin Luther King Quotes

Martin Luther King Quote of the day

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Promised yourself never to keep quiet on the truth. Speak it out and let the lie die

A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is achieved.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.

When the leader grows, the organization grows.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?

Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.

No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.

Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.

The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.

You don’t need a huge number of people with little passions to get a good job done. You rather need few people with huge passion.

You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.

Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.

Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.

Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.

Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.

If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.

A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

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.

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.

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.

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

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

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

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.

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.

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