Martin Luther King Jr Quotes

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together?

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you’re a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don’t seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

~ Pat Conroy

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it to yours. That's a trait of leaders!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ensure you have done each day’s portion of the heavy responsibilities resting on you. Never delay your success!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stick to love, it is heavy and it will carry you. Avoid hatred, it is heavy and you have to carry it. It is left to you to make your choice.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption, they are for other people’s liberation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

~ Israelmore Ayivor