1 Motivational Martin Luther King Jr. Quote That Will Inspire You To Stand Up For Others

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To stand up for others, you must first stand up for yourself. To represent others, you must first represent yourself. To lift other people up, you must first lift yourself up. Why? Because you cannot give to others what you do not have within you.

Here is what the great Martin Luther King Jr. said about standing up for other people: He said,” I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. … We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without the hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.” Change comes when we work together. It is not going to be easy, but “we can do it when we do it together.”

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!

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“Simplify, simplify, simplify!”

Henry David Thoreau said, “Our life is frittered away by details. … Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. … Simplify, simplify.” Whatever you do, don’t make it difficult for yourself. Remove complexity from your work, your life, and your relationships. Because complexity leads to failure. It does not make things better. According to Alan Perlis, “Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”