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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
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
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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Ideas People Succeed
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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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
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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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
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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Country Grudge Hurt People
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.
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Men Overcoming Want
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 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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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results

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