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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Booker T. Washington

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Book Equal Men
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Live Problem Question Study
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.
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Attention Life Success
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Communication Pockets Vocabulary
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Inspirational Work Writing
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Affirmation Learning Myself Thinking
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Poem Prosperity Race Writing

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

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