Quotes about Purpose
You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
— 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.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
— Romans 8:28