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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose 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 individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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