Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

I have a rendezvous with life.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

If it is decreed that I should go down because of this speech, then let me go down linked to the truth—let me die in the advocacy of what is just and right.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

All of us have a mission here on Earth.