Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Character is power.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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