Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Greatness
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
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You only need a heart full of grace
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Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
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The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.
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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'
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
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Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
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He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Born: January 15, 1929
- Died: April 4, 1968
- Occupation: Civil rights activist
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