Quotes & Sayings About Leadership Martin Luther King

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world. — Zulay Henao

Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. — David Cameron

Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

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. — Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you; you have to go for it. — Israelmore Ayivor

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims. — Israelmore Ayivor

Don't reduce your impacts to match what you earn. — Israelmore Ayivor

I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela. — Paul Hawken

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. — Martin Luther King Jr.

White America has told Doc: We have created a space for you. We have allowed you to be the leader of your people for your cause. We have become comfortable seeing you in this space. This space has resulted in your receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But that leadership and prize do not allow you to address issues outside your space. — Tavis Smiley

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark. — Israelmore Ayivor

If this were a courageous country,
it would ask Gloria to lead it
since she is sane and funny and beautiful and smart
and the National Leaders we've always had
are not.
When I listen to her talk about women's rights
children's rights
men's rights
I think of the long line of Americans
who should have been president, but weren't.
Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.
John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.
Imagine President Martin Luther King confronting
the youthful "Oppie" Oppenheimer. Imagine President
Malcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President Stevie
Wonder dealing with the "Truly Needy."
Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, or
Sweet Honey in the Rock
dealing with Anything.
It is imagining to make us weep with frustration,
as we languish under real estate dealers, killers,
and bad actors. — Alice Walker

Since you can't be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India's Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians of
modern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics. — Abhijit Naskar

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

It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it. — Israelmore Ayivor

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line. — Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer. — KRS-One

Watch out; success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them. — Israelmore Ayivor

People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision. — Israelmore Ayivor

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting. — Israelmore Ayivor

When the leader grows, the organization grows. — Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes, people don't need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up. — Israelmore Ayivor

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy. — Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders face battles. They don't run away from troubles. — Israelmore Ayivor

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate. — Israelmore Ayivor

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. — Israelmore Ayivor

You can't shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself. — Israelmore Ayivor

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people. — Marian Wright Edelman

No one has the right to pee on your dreams! — Israelmore Ayivor

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

A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can. — Israelmore Ayivor

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream. — Israelmore Ayivor

If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it. — Israelmore Ayivor

Just as you won't enjoy the fruits of the tree you dislike, so you won't even wait to learn from people you hate. — Israelmore Ayivor

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age. — Israelmore Ayivor

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! — Israelmore Ayivor

Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter. — Israelmore Ayivor

Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or serve a year at hard labor. Like Judge Carter, the national newspaper and magazine reporters waiting outside for the ruling ignored the black women's testimonies that detailed decades of mistreatment and denied King's leadership in the boycott. Instead, the media turned King into an apostle of civil rights. — Danielle L. McGuire

Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for. — Israelmore Ayivor

Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots. — Israelmore Ayivor

It's never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it. — Israelmore Ayivor

You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader. — Israelmore Ayivor