Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

Service to others leads to greatness.

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

Serve, serve, serve. Because in the end, it will be the servants who save us all.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I'm important.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.