Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

In our culture, the people who have the most respect are not those who have the most material possessions or those who have accomplished the most. It is the people who have helped others the most.

I have always wanted to be Number One, but I wanted power solely to help the poor and disadvantaged.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

The end of all education should surely be service to others

Now Hillary Clinton and I are 'companeros de alma.' And we share this basic belief: it's simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple.