Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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