Martin Luther King 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.

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.

We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

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

Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

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

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.