Quotes & Sayings About Service Martin Luther King

Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic - indeed, it is a species of magic. — George Orwell

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece. — Molly Antopol

The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm not paralyzed by fear about what might have been or what might be. I'm grateful for what is and I make excellent use of what I've got. — Linda Gray

Walking through the city streets ... Is it by mistake or design? — Lana Del Rey

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. — G. M. Trevelyan

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Smiling face is always beautiful even if it is hundred years old! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. — Mel Brooks

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve. — Martin Luther King Jr.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Ruth Ellis would have been 90 on 9th October. And still the lies are being broadcast about her!
Ruth Ellis 1926 - 1955 — Monica Weller

It's amazing how something that had, in concept, seemed so insignificant to my life could not become my entire world. — A Meredith Walters

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration. — Queen Noor Of Jordan

There is a pressing need for a liberalism in the North which is truly liberal, a liberalism that firmly believes in integration in its own community as well as in the Deep South. It is one thing to agree that the goal of integration is morally and legally right; it is another thing to commit oneself positively and actively to the ideal of integration - the former is intellectual assent, the latter is actual belief. These are days that demand practices to match professions. This is no day to pay lip service to integration; we must pay life service to it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme. — Jay Leno

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life. — Shakti Gawain

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition. — Claudia Rankine

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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 verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But ... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? — Martin Luther King Jr.