Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

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

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.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?" There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally.

I always pull over for people who need a push.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

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

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.