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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.

Booker T. Washington

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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