What is your life’s blueprint

What is your lifes blueprint?

What is your lifes blueprint?

An address by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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I want to ask you a question, and that is:

WHAT IS YOUR LIFES BLUEPRINT?


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blueprintWhenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.

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BlueprintNow each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.


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I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your lifes blueprint.

NUMBER ONE in your lifes blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness.

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rosa-parks-dickson1dec05rosa_parksDont allow anybody to make you feel that youre nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.


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mountain%20climberSECONDLY, in your lifes blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.


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clocktowerYoure going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life what your lifes work will be. Set out to do it well.

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And I say to you my young friends, doors are opening to you doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and fathers

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and the challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871

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If a man can

write a better book


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sermon11or make a better mouse trap

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than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods,

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This hasnt always been true but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil, I would say to you, dont drop out of school.

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I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that youre forced to live in stay in school.

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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it.

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Dont just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that

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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper

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sweep streets like

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sweep streets like

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sweep streets like

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Sweep streets like

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Heaven_and_EarthSweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say:


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street-sweeperHere lived a great street sweeper

who swept his job well.


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If you cant be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley.

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Be a bush if you cant be a tree.

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If you cant be a highway, just be a trail.

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Sun RiseIf you cant be a sun,

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For it isnt by size that you win or fail.

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Be the BEST of whatever you are.

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