57 Powerful Martin Luther Quotes to Boost Your Spirit

Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

• "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agrees to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "A right delayed is a right denied." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• ""We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Let no man pull you so low as to hate him." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "No person has the right to rain on your dreams." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "The time is always right to do right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "There comes a time when silence is betrayal." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Quotes

• "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Famous Martin Luther King Quotes

• "I have decided to stick with love...Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Mother Dear, one day I’m going to turn this world upside down." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there ‘is’ such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King jr.

Martin Luther Quotes on Prayer

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• "Pray, and let God worry." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can affect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "To pray well is the better half of study." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "The fewer the words, the better the prayer." - Martin Luther King Jr.

• "Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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