Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Success always leaves footprints.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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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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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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