Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

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• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Years
  • Turn

• The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Change
  • Popular
  • Busy

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Last

• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Success
  • Luck

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • My Soul

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Knowledge
  • Training
  • Medical

• The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life

• Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Memories

• No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Conversation
  • Ghost
  • Common Sense

• I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Death

• This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Generation