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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Guide Himself Necessary Position
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Christian Men Years
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Help Humanity Life Worth
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Class House Sight
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Attention Life Success
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Freedom Ideas Myself Return Slave
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hold Hurt Oneself Person
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Degrade Positive Positivity
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Angel Hate Positive
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Country Ignorance People States
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Measurement Power Remember World

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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