Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

I did my best, and God did the rest.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

God primes the pump of obligation.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.