Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Quotes

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.