You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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