Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Browse 17 quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
“He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well.'”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“Most people are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.”
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
“Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?”
