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Greatness Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 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…
- 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…
- The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.
- 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…
- If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I…
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- 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…
- 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.
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
- 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…
- The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
- There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience…
- Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
- Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
- Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
More Greatness Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. — Abu Bakr
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr
- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher
- He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. — Erma Bombeck
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte