Martin Luther King Jr Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.

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Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

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I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.

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A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

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If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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When the leader grows, the organization grows.

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When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

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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?

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

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No one has the right to pee on your dreams!

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

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

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

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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.

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Leaders make impacts. If your riches don’t help you to make impacts, you aren’t leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.

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

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

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You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

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Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

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Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

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When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

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Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.

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You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

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Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

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When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

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Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

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Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

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

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People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

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Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.

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It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

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Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

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A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

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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.

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Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.

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You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

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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.

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Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

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