B.B. King Quotes

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

Let's build bridges, not walls.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open