Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

Watch out success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.

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 the leader grows, the organization grows.

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

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

At the end of it all, it is our relationship with people that will determine whether they will share in our pain if we fall into dangers.

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

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

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

What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

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

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

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

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

A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

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.

The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!

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

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

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.

Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you’re a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don’t seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.

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

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

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

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.

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.

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

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

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

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’s never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.

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

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.

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

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.

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

The change the world needs is not in the hand of everyone who is alive. It is in the works of those who deliberately contribute to make it a better place.

Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.

The leader’s commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.

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.

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.

Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.

Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory

Keep to active learning. You must learn, research and be so passionate about new ways and methods of doing things to be and remain relevant.

Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.