Martin Luther King Jr.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.