Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Serving Others

• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Greatness, Diversity

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

• Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivation, Helping Others, Community

• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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