Quotes about Commitment
if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.