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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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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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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate 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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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Character is power.
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