If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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