Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

I feel like personally, it's on everybody to hold each other accountable.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.

Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.