The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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