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. 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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