Martin Luther King Jr.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Topic: Inspiration, Purpose
Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

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Service Success

If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.

Commitment Goals Purpose Work

A lie cannot live. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Honesty Truth

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

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Dreams Society Vision

Courage Strength

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Action Faith

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

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Conflict Freedom Liberty Peace

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.

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Diversity Society

More Quotes from Glacier National Park

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. — Michel de Montaigne

Character Self Self-esteem

All your strength is in your union. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Perfection

Commitment

Love

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› Mary Baker Eddy

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› Hermann Hesse

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One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. — Henry Ford

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I expect to fail, but I have a greater expectation to succeed. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. — Margaret Fuller

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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You will become as small as your controlling desire: as great as your dominant aspiration. — James Allen

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› Viktor Frankl

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

› Lewis Carroll

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